Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
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But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.
Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity - a bunch of nerds in a lab. Now the sheer potential of biology to re-program our physical world is a new reality for everyone.
The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.
In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.
When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
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