answers. In high energy physics, where we struggle to unravel the basic laws of nature at the most microscopic level, we mostly know what the questions are and most of one’s effort goes into trying to be clever enough to carry out the highly technical calculations. In biology I found it to be mostly the other way around: months were spent trying to figure out what the problem actually was that we were trying to solve, the questions we should be asking, and the various relevant quantities that were needed to be calculated, but once that was accomplished, the actual technical mathematics was
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