TY - JOUR
T1 - Rejoice in the hubris
T2 - Useful things biologists could do for physicists
AU - Austin, Robert H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1088/1478-3975/11/5/053015
DO - 10.1088/1478-3975/11/5/053015
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25292219
AN - SCOPUS:84908542669
SN - 1478-3967
VL - 11
JO - Physical Biology
JF - Physical Biology
IS - 5
M1 - 053015
ER -