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Physics might be bumping up against limits of knowledge, but I think it's quite short sighted to claim that this means all of Science is bumping up against fundamental limits.

Just because many of the questions we want to solve today are of practical significance (inventing new medicines, perhaps) doesn't make it any less scientific.

Indeed, almost 20 years after the Human Genome Project, we have only scratched the surface on how to understand what any particular genes are doing, and are very far from doing anything more than "hacking" on existing genes, let alone writing a biological program from the ground up.



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