{"id":9920,"date":"2013-04-21T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2013-04-21T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T20:56:12","slug":"terrible-advice-from-a-great-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9920","title":{"rendered":"Terrible advice from a great scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Darwin is Wilson\u2019s Bill Gates, his outlier from which he draws general conclusions. However, even Darwin himself wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics;\u00a0 for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is this extra sense that makes math such a powerful asset to biological thinking. Indeed \u201c<em>thorough, well-organized knowledge of all that is known or can be imagined of real entities and processes within that fragment of existence.\u201d <\/em>requires math to chart and define these \u201cprocesses\u201d as processes in the first place<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bytesizebio.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/13\/terrible-advice-from-a-great-scientist\/\">Terrible advice from a great scientist | Byte Size Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin is Wilson\u2019s Bill Gates, his outlier from which he draws general conclusions. However, even Darwin himself wrote: I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-9920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9921,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}