Rejoice in the hubris: useful things biologists could do for physicists.

Author
Publication Year
2014

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

Political correctness urges us to state how wonderful it is to work with biologists and how, just as the lion will someday lie down with the lamb, so will interdisciplinary work, where biologists and physicists are mixed together in light, airy buildings designed to force socialization, give rise to wonderful new science. But it has been said that the only drive in human nature stronger than the sex drive is the drive to censor and suppress, and so I claim that it is OK for physicists and biologists to maintain a wary distance from each other, so that neither one censors or suppresses the wild ideas of the other.

Journal
Phys Biol. 2014 Oct 8;11(5):053015. doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/11/5/053015.