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by malkarouri 2367 days ago
That is more or less the same pitch of physics, while most of the important activity is taking place in the biosciences at the moment.

The underlying assumption is reductionism: if we understood atoms best, we can understand and control everything built on them. I am not sure that I can agree with you on that. Complexity makes that a pipe dream.

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We understand atoms well enough already; as far as “bioscience” is concerned, the current focus is on molecular structures (chemistry in its modern sense) as the most promising direction of research.