"... most biologists consider physicist's obsession with certainty to be exasperatingly childish and evidence of their limited mental capacities. Physicists, in contrast, consider tolerance of uncertainty to be an excuse for second-rate experimentation and a potential source of false claims. These cultural differences have their roots in the historical development of the two sciences (physics and chemistry evolved together with engineering, while biology came from agriculture and medicine), and they mirror differences in our society generally about what is and is not real and important. But because of them there is relatively little useful communication between physicist and biologist at the moment."

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