In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually

It Is One Of The More Striking Generalizations Of Biochemistry - Which Surprisingly Is Hardly Ever Mentioned In The Biochemical Textbooks - That The Twenty Amino Acids And The Four Bases, Are, With Minor Reservations, The Same Throughout Nature.

In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually Lazy And Especially Dislike Reading Experimental Papers. He Seemed To Have Very Strong Biological Intuitions But Unfortunately Of Negative Sign.

Attempts Have Been Made From A Study Of The Changes Produced By Mutation To Obtain The Relative Order Of The Bases Within Various Triplets, But My Own View Is That These Are Premature Until There Is More Extensive And More Reliable Data On The Composition Of The Triplets.

To Produce A Really Good Biological Theory One Must Try To See Through The Clutter Produced By Evolution To The Basic Mechanisms Lying Beneath Them, Realizing That They Are Likely To Be Overlaid By Other, Secondary Mechanisms. What Seems To Physicists To Be A Hopelessly Complicated Process May Have Been What Nature Found Simplest, Because Nature Could Only Build On What Was Already There.

Jim And I Hit It Off Immediately, Partly Because Our Interests Were Astonishingly Similar And Partly, I Suspect, Because A Certain Youthful Arrogance, A Ruthlessness, An Impatience With Sloppy Thinking Can Naturally To Both Of Us.