This Seems Highly Likely, Especially As It

Almost All Aspects Of Life Are Engineered At The Molecular Level, And Without Understanding Molecules We Can Only Have A Very Sketchy Understanding Of Life Itself.

My Own Prejudices Are Exactly The Opposite Of The Functionalists': "if You Want To Understand Function, Study Structure".

This Seems Highly Likely, Especially As It Has Been Shown That In Several Systems Mutations Affecting The Same Amino Acid Are Extremely Near Together On The Genetic Map.

If Watson And I Had Not Discovered The [dna] Structure, Instead Of Being Revealed With A Flourish It Would Have Trickled Out And That Its Impact Would Have Been Far Less. For This Sort Of Reason Stent Had Argued That A Scientific Discovery Is More Akin To A Work Of Art Than Is Generally Admitted. Style, He Argues, Is As Important As Content. I Am Not Completely Convinced By This Argument, At Least In This Case.

I Also Suspect That Many Workers In This Field [molecular Biology] And Related Fields Have Been Strongly Motivated By The Desire, Rarely Actually Expressed, To Refute Vitalism.