But in the actual process, you get an idea, like, when I got the idea one night that I could amplify DNA with two oligonucleotides, and I could make lots of copies of some little piece of DNA, you know, the thinking for that was about 20 minutes while I was driving my car, and then instead of going, I went back and I did talk to people about it, but if I'd listened to what I heard from all my friends who were molecular biologists, I would have abandoned it. You know, if I had gone back looking for an authority figure who could tell me if it would work or not, he would have said, no, it probably won't. Because the results of it were so spectacular that if it worked it was going to change everybody's goddamn way of doing molecular biology.
Pero en el proceso real, Ud. tiene una idea, como, cuando tuve la idea una noche que yo podía amplificar el ADN con dos oligonucleótidos, y podía hacer un montón de copias de pequeños pedazos de ADN, ustedes saben, pensar en eso tomó como 20 minutos mientras conducía mi automovil, y luego, en vez de ir, me devolví y hablé con otras personas sobre esto, pero si hubiera escuchado lo que oí de todos mis amigos que eran biólogos moleculares, yo lo habría abandonado. ustedes saben, si yo me hubiera devuelto a buscar alguien con autoridad quien me pudiera decir si eso funcionaría o no, él hubiera dicho, no, probablemente no. Porque los resultados de eso eran tan espectaculares que si funcionaba, cambiaría la maldita manera de hacer biología molecular.