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.
O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasnβt as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead, who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.
I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.
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