the central dogma

In the week of prizes, we should recall a lecture by the great Francis Crick in 1957. "Famous" for the structure of DNA, his subsequent contribution on the 3-letter code is more important. The lecture does not exist, but a fuller exposition was published later. Crick suggested:

"I shall…argue that the main function of the genetic material is to control (not necessarily directly) the synthesis of proteins. There is a little direct evidence to support this, but to my mind the psychological drive behind this hypothesis is at the moment independent of such evidence."

Try saying that to a study section.