Scientists divide. We discriminate. It is the inevitable occupational hazard of our profession that we must break the world into its constituent parts — genes, atoms, bytes — before making it whole again. We know of no other mechanism to understand the world: to create the sum of its parts, we must begin by dividing it into the parts of the sum.

Scientists divide. We discriminate. It is the inevitable occupational hazard of our profession that we must break the world into its constituent parts — genes, atoms, bytes — before making it whole again. We know of no other mechanism to understand the world: to create the sum of its parts, we must begin by dividing it into the parts of the sum.

– Siddhartha Mukherjee –

The Gene: An Intimate History

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