Theorists will often complain that experimentalists ignore their work. Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. J. Spengler in Science Feb. 18, 2000.
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central.
It seems to me that, just as the Church did in former times, science offers a safe niche where you can spend a quiet life classifying spiders, away from what E. M. Forster called the world of telegrams and anger. I always said so. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.