You’re Nothing But A Pack Of Neurons.

A Final Proof Of Our Ideas Can Only Be Obtained By Detailed Studies On The Alterations Produced In The Amino Acid Sequence Of A Protein By Mutations Of The Type Discussed Here.

We Are Sometimes Asked What The Result Would Be If We Put Four +'s In One Gene. To Answer This My Colleagues Have Recently Put Together Not Merely Four But Six +'s.

The Meaning Of This Observation Is Unclear, But It Raises The Unfortunate Possibility Of Ambiguous Triplets; That Is, Triplets Which May Code More Than One Amino Acid. However One Would Certainly Expect Such Triplets To Be In A Minority.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clinches Into Place.

The Major Credit I Think Jim And I Deserve Is For Selecting The Right Problem And Sticking To It. It's True That By Blundering About We Stumbled On Gold, But The Fact Remains That We Were Looking For Gold.