"Avery's (就是做肺炎双球菌转化的那个) proof that the transformating principle was DNA set the agenda of biology henceforth; Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA confirmed rather than concluded that agenda. But the question that Avery had put, Nirenberg and Matthaei began at last to answer."
"…there is a terrible snobbery that either a person who's speaking is someone who's in the club and you know him, or else his results are unlikely to be correct. And here was some guy named Marshell Nirenberg; his results were unlikely to be correct, because he was't in the club. And nobody bothered "