It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
Interpretation
The quote hints at a mechanism by which genetic material could be copied, crucial for understanding genetics.
This quote by Francis Crick discusses the discovery of the structure of DNA and suggests that the pairing of nucleotides he observed could indicate how genetic information is replicated. This insight was foundational in molecular biology, paving the way for understanding heredity, genetic variation, and the mechanisms by which traits are transmitted across generations.
In practice
This quote could be cited in a lecture on genetic inheritance.
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.
Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
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.
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
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