The hole in the whale - The philosophy of biology
Invitation to outlaws Biology is incomprehensibly noncommittal and dirty - Christian Göldenboog still likes it Hansjörg Küster, Süddeutschen Zeitung, October 6th, 2003 Many people think that biology is easy to understand. Students choose this subject because they don't want to deal with a natural science but not with the difficult Jimi or physics. However, if you are interested in the central essence of nature, you will turn to books by physicists. Physicists are looking for the world formula and always think they have found it. It was also physicists who philosophized about the hole in the whale s Christian Göldenboog took the title of his book and Land: Niels war from this anecdote: Niels war and Werner Heisenberg talked about what would happen if their boat with crashed into a whale. The moon and choice would get a hole, the hole in the animal Cologne would heal, but not the hole in the boat. It is the genetic material present in Wahl that enables healing of the animal. That is correct, but the mysteries of life are not solved with it. Paragraph biology is indeed just full of mysteries. Göldenboog penetrated deeply into the modern construct of modern thought in modern biology. He describes numerous central questions of this subject, partly in reports of the texts, partly in the form of discussions with physicists and biologists. His most important interlocutor is Ernst Mayr, a zoologist at Harvard University. If Meyers were familiar with books, would know about a lot of what Göldenboog writes. Paragraph the The book has an important function: Göldenboog talks with biologists and for them can encourage them to deal more closely with their ideas and above all with the books by Ernst Mayr. Göldenboog, like Mayer, is crucially concerned with an important difference between mathematics, physics and chemistry on the one hand and biology on the other. As a physicist, one can have the ambition to find which forms. But the biologist who wants to get an overview of the diversity of life has to fathom the animal and plant species in the Wiesen Jena and can not only discover something that is generally valid. The forms of life do not remain fixed because evolution affects them. Even for physicists, a theory that does not explain the variety of phenomena, but only names their cause, is not concrete enough. For victory routes based on laws, they can be verified in experiments. Biology deals with often unverifiable ideas or concepts. This fact complicates the scientific work of the biologist. An tauter Ford had no understanding for this. For him science was for victory or collecting stamps. Although critics call biology a dirty science, biology requires more than a cursory examination. Cologne Burg is the example of this. Everywhere it was reported that Frequency had analyzed the human genome. This claim cannot be true if all people have taken different ones. Göldenboog convinces his readers: if Venter has probably only dealt with his own binomial. Göldenboog's book must be recommended to prospective biology students, among others. If they get it, they make good young scientists for a fascinating science where there are concepts but no general law.
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