"Biology remains the only basic science that is descriptive instead of being predictive, unlike physics and chemistry. The physicist Rutherford was infamous for saying that "all science is either physics or stamp collecting". That was due to the lack of reduction of biology to the cell, and beyond to molecular biology and genomics, rendering the cell on par with the atom. We now have the opportunity to make biology a 'hard' science, capable of prediction, particularly with regard to its role as the basic science for ...
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"Biology remains the only basic science that is descriptive instead of being predictive, unlike physics and chemistry. The physicist Rutherford was infamous for saying that "all science is either physics or stamp collecting". That was due to the lack of reduction of biology to the cell, and beyond to molecular biology and genomics, rendering the cell on par with the atom. We now have the opportunity to make biology a 'hard' science, capable of prediction, particularly with regard to its role as the basic science for medicine. The cell-cell signaling principle behind structure and function in biology has now been exploited in order allow for predictive biology for the first time"--
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New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 178 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Halftones, black & white, Halftones, color, Line drawings, black & white, Line drawings, color.