Phil Anderson's statement that 'the arrogance of the past physicist and his intensive research may be behind us' (referring to reductionist physicists) but 'we have yet to recover from that of some molecular biologists determined to try to reduce everything about the human organism to only chemistry, from the common cold and all mental disease to the religious instinct' indicates the persistence of reductionist thinking across scientific fields.
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“the arrogance of the past I physicist and his intensive research may be behind us this is a Nobel prize winning physicist talking about the Discover of the positron said the rest is chemistry but we have yet to recover from that of some molecular biologists determined to try to reduce everything about the human organism to only chemistry from the common cold and all mental disease to the religious instinct each level can require a whole new conceptual structure”
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