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While Occam's Razor Is A Useful Tool In The Physical Sciences, It Can Be A Very Dangerous Implement In Biology. It Is Thus Very Rash To Use Simplicity And Elegance As A Guide In Biological Research.

It Now Seems Very Likely That Many Of The 64 Triplets, Possibly Most Of Them, May Code One Amino Acid Or Another, And That In General Several Distinct Triplets May Code One Amino Acid.

A Theory Should Not Attempt To Explain All The Facts, Because Some Of The Facts Are Wrong

In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually Lazy.

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.