Journal
MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS
Volume 68, Issue 2, Pages 173-+Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.2.173-186.2004
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Biology today is at a crossroads. The molecular paradigm, which so successfully guided the discipline throughout most of the 20th century, is no longer a reliable guide. Its vision of biology now realized, the molecular paradigm has run its course. Biology, therefore, has a choice to make. between the comfortable path of continuing to follow molecular biology's lead or the more ivigorating one of seeking a new and inspiring vision of the living world, one that addresses the major problems in biology that 20th century biology, molecular biology, could not handle and, so, avoided. The former course, though highly productive, is certain to turn biology into an engineering discipline. The latter holds the promise of making biology an even more fundamental science, one that, along with physics, probes and defines the nature of reality. This is a choice between a biology, that solely does society's bidding and a biology that is society's teacher.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available