/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4822620]

Why does /sci/ look down on biology?

[Anonymous No.4822637]

I'd rather eat bunnies than study them.

[Anonymous No.4822645]

i guess to protect their egos. If people are out enjoying the wonders of nature while doing important science it makes all that time spent in math/physics textbooks seem grueling in comparison. The truth is we all have an important role to play.

[JustinBeesqueezyhttps://affiliates.jlist.com/click/583?url=http://www2.jlist.com/home No.4822646]

Because Biology is about the study of Life, who wants to hear about what you already go through everyday...?

[Anonymous No.4822647]

/sci/ is a bunch of HS / CC students who look down on certain people to make themselves feel better.

>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

Applies to all of 4chan

[JustinBeesqueezy No.4822655]

Because Emos, do not enjoy the study of life :p

[Anonymous No.4822658]

>>4822647
this. if you aren't a math/physics/engineering autist, you're obviously an unintelligent barbarian! seriously, don't take this board seriously.

[Anonymous No.4822665]

>>4822620
I don't know but that's a cute fucking bunny.

[Anonymous No.4822667]

I looked in a book of biology and could not find an equation in every page, therefore there is less to learn and easier.

[Anonymous No.4822684]

>>4822620

Create a thread attacking evolution and watch how quickly that dynamic changes.

[Anonymous No.4822711]

>>4822693

[Anonymous No.4822806]

People are dicks. Dick 'em back.

[Anonymous No.4823860]

>biology
>hard science

[Anonymous No.4823865]

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf

Still a soft science?

[Anonymous No.4823874]

Because you're cute when you're trolled.

[Anonymous No.4823875]

It's because biology is hard.

Also, the truths you learn from biology are harder for people to deal with then the safe theoretical world of physics and math. (I like math and physics)

[Anonymous No.4823891]

>>4823875
lolnope

[Anonymous No.4823893]

>>4823865

>"The greater part of this present paper requires only a very moderate knowledge of mathematics."

The paper you're quoting as proof itself says it's a soft science.

[Anonymous No.4823899]

it's not hard science but no one really looks down on it
only manchild and hipster do

[Anonymous No.4823900]

>>4823891

hurp derp

[Anonymous No.4823910]

It is a troll. Nobody looks down on biology. It is a very respectable hard science.

[Anonymous No.4823920]

"Hard science" doesn't mean "science that is hard because math". It means science that follows the scientific method.

Psychology is generally not considered a hard science, because it uses way too much induction and concepts which can't be tested.

Biology, on the other hand, tests concepts using the current standards of scientific logic.

[Anonymous No.4823979]

>>4823920

Tell that to idiots like >>4823893.

[Anonymous No.4824167]

In undergrad people belittle it because it doesn't require much math to get the degree. Once you get to grad school or get into doing bio science, you realize that you need math. All papers in any field require analysis and you can't get by without a strong understanding of math, particularly stats. In the end, not counting theoretical physics, all grad students are in in the same boat in terms of how the scientific process works. So, it comes down to what do you find interesting.

[Anonymous No.4824171]

[Anonymous No.4824173]

>with future biological engineering humans can have wings
>can have wings
>WINGS

[Anonymous No.4824197]

not funny

[Anonymous No.4824200]

biological SCIENCE!

[Anonymous No.4824207]

So...any Molecular/Cell Biology majors here?

[Anonymous No.4824211]

>>4824197
>biologist detected

[Anonymous No.4824216]

>>4824207
I'm going to be a 3rd year following my schools BS in molecular / micro biology track. I'm currently taking a year of organic chemistry with lab over the summer sessions.

>that feel when no free time

[Anonymous No.4824217]

all we see is shit

[Anonymous No.4824228]

[Anonymous No.4824234]

[M No.4824249]

Are you talking about macrobiology or microbiology? I think microbiology is more respected than macrobiology.

[M No.4824257]

>>4824167
It's not just math. Microbiology is like a voodoo, and nothing seems to make sense, even to the microbiologists. It takes a very good mind to interpret results. I'm doing both micro- and nanofabrication in a cleanroom, and microbiology as well. Microbiology is by far the most frustrating and confusing of the two. With fab, I can read papers to find answers to problems without too much effort, or alter my parameters in a logical way with basic knowledge of chemistry and materials science. In microbiology I can't find an answer online to something as simple as "why did my fucking bottles just turn black"? Answers are not in the literature, and the "why" can easily be a PhD in itself for some seemingly simple problems.

[Anonymous No.4824431]

>>4824257
My undergrad degree was in micro, I always found it logical and intuitive. You are working with living, evolving organisms, though, and while the minimum genome work is cool and the central dogma is great, it's true that we don't understand all the mechanisms and chemistry being performed even in simple organisms.

I don't know what problems you run into, but I'm imagining someone designing a factory run by trained monkeys. You can get the mechanics down pat, but sometimes the monkeys stop doing what you tell them, and start flinging shit around.

[Anonymous No.4824447]

>>4824249
95% of current biology is molecular/cellular biology with different focused topics.

[Anonymous No.4824453]

[Anonymous No.4824454]

>>4824431
>all the mechanisms and chemistry being performed even in simple organisms.

So, how do you explain the high predictive power of genome scale metabolic models?

[Anonymous No.4824460]

High school taught me to hate it. Not necessarily biology students but the subject itself. It's all just memorization. Pointless, stupid memorization of stuff that isn't even remotely interesting (gametophyte, sporophyte, this plant sexes this way and this plant this way..)

[Anonymous No.4824873]

>>4824460 /thread