http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/awaiting-new-darwin/
The history of science is partly the history of an idea that is by now
so familiar that it no longer astounds: the universe, including our
own existence, can be explained by the interactions of little bits of
matter. We scientists are in the business of discovering the laws that
characterize this matter. We do so, to some extent at least, by a kind
of reduction. The stuff of biology, for instance, can be reduced to
chemistry and the stuff of chemistry can be reduced to physics.
---SPSmith
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