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Biology is a lot cooler to the geek crowd when you reframe it as the study of (natural) self-replicators.
by SilasX 7y ago
Biology is a lot cooler to the geek crowd when you reframe it as the study of (natural) self-replicators.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoOr as the only existing example of working nanotechnology. This realization was what made me interested in life sciences. Before, biology in my mind was mostly cataloging various peculiarities of animals and plants, which I found utterly boring. I think the switch flipped when I stopped looking at life sciences as studying an art piece, and started looking at it as reverse engineering of an incredibly complex family of machines, with full intent of using gained knowledge for practical purposes.