The guy who was too lazy to clean his dishes before he went on vacation isn’t the best example of a biologist. You know, Pasteur and Koch existed, too.
Think of biologists as the people who were handed an absolutely massive book collection that was previously owned by a person who hated any kind of organization in the slightest. The biologists are going through the collection and identifying books, organizing them, and figuring out what’s written inside. Then medical researchers, material scientists, biomolecular engineers, and other people show up at the library and say “I’m looking for something that might be useful in my area of research” and the biology librarians say “we’ve found a few books over in this area that might be of interest, see what you can do with those and let us know if you think we should keep looking in that area.”
My respect for biologist vanished after I compared the posters the chemist had on their floor with the biologists’.
Chemist: We found a new material that can replace the <can’t remember anymore> and cut carbon emissions in half.
Biologists: Hey, we found a plant.
I mean, a version of a biologist found penicillin by observing molds.
As you might be aware, penicillin is, as the kids say “pretty dope”
The guy who was too lazy to clean his dishes before he went on vacation isn’t the best example of a biologist. You know, Pasteur and Koch existed, too.
Is this meant to be a burn or something? You just disproved your original point even further.
The two fields are pretty inseparable at a certain level ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Think of biologists as the people who were handed an absolutely massive book collection that was previously owned by a person who hated any kind of organization in the slightest. The biologists are going through the collection and identifying books, organizing them, and figuring out what’s written inside. Then medical researchers, material scientists, biomolecular engineers, and other people show up at the library and say “I’m looking for something that might be useful in my area of research” and the biology librarians say “we’ve found a few books over in this area that might be of interest, see what you can do with those and let us know if you think we should keep looking in that area.”