自然杂志上一个小随笔：A clash of two cultures。这里的两种 cultures 指的是物理和生物学术圈的文化。从我上大学时就听人讲，学物理的与学生物的思维方式有多大区别，看来直到现在依旧是个话题。如文中所述，这种区别已经存在至少一个世纪。

In the past, biologists have been little concerned about whether their findings might achieve the status of a law. And even when findings seem to be so general as to warrant thinking of them as a law, the discovery of limits to their generality has not been seen as a problem. Think, for example, of Mendel’s laws, the central dogma or even the ‘law’ of natural selection. Exceptions to these presumed laws are no cause for alarm; nor do they send biologists back to the drawing board in search of better, exception-free laws. They are simply reminders of how complex biology is in reality.

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