"Science focuses on tractable problems, not important ones." That doesn't make sense. Science isn't an entity for one thing, it can't focus on anything... for

"Science focuses on tractable problems, not important ones." That doesn't make sense. Science isn't an entity for one thing, it can't focus on anything... for another, do you really think that mechanics, immunology, electricity, and ceramics, to pick a few examples, aren't important? The reality is that scientists aim to solve tractable problems because they know that they can't solve the whole thing at once. It's part of a simple algorithm called "divide and conquer."