judson_w
100+ Head-Fier
Right on the money, @PolarBehr XKCD always needs a repost. Love it (I'm the dude holding the mollusc). {rant-edit: 'applied' has a negative connotation in Ontario high schools. Oh, you're in Applied Science 10... I'm in Academic Science }.
I think there has long been the rift between the applied and theoretical schools of different fields. Yes, there are those who bounce between the two.
I disagree with one thing here. Biology is not just applied chemistry. Why? Evolution.
Yes, but what is evolution but the result of errors in a chemical process (DNA replication and/or RNA transcription) and unintended changes in a chemical structure? (reductionist perspective yes, but as a chemist, or former chemist, I have to poke in good fun. And I am tired and it is early and I do not know better)