Chance Is The Only Source Of True

Again The Message To Experimentalists Is: Be Sensible But Don't Be Impressed Too Much By Negative Arguments. If At All Possible, Try It And See What Turns Up. Theorists Almost Always Dislike This Sort Of Approach.

Finally One Should Add That In Spite Of The Great Complexity Of Protein Synthesis And In Spite Of The Considerable Technical Difficulties In Synthesizing Polynucleotides With Defined Sequences It Is Not Unreasonable To Hope That All These Points Will Be Clarified In The Near Future, And That The Genetic Code Will Be Completely Established On A Sound Experimental Basis Within A Few Years.

If Poly A Is Added To Poly U, To Form A Double Or Triple Helix, The Combination Is Inactive.

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.

One Can Say, Looking At The Papers In This Symposium, That The Elucidation Of The Genetic Code Is Indeed A Great Achievement. It Is, In A Sense, The Key To Molecular Biology Because It Shows How The Great Polymer Languages, The Nucleic Acid Language And The Protein Language, Are Linked Together.