Originally Posted By: DWallach
My conclusion, at the time, was that biology was stupid, and that's because it never explained anything. Just documented what was there.

Well, in a sense, in the days before gene sequencing was cheap, that's all it did do. The famous Rutherford quote is "All science is either physics or stamp-collecting"; biology only really matured from stamp-collecting into physics during the 1990s.

Peter