Even as someone who is more of a physicist than a biologist, that quip of Rurherford's, quoted in the article (“science consists of physics and stamp-collecting

Even as someone who is more of a physicist than a biologist, that quip of Rurherford's, quoted in the article (“science consists of physics and stamp-collecting”) has always bugged me. Even though I assume that all of biology can be reduced to fundamental physics, very little of importance can learned or understood about biological systems by doing so - and biological systems are significant physical phenomena.