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A New Biology for a New Century
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ABSTRACT
Biology today is at a crossroads. The molecular paradigm, which so successfully guided the discipline throughout most of the 20th century, is no longer a reliable guide.
A Biologia hoje se encontra numa encruzilhada. O paradigma molecular, o qual com sucesso guiou
a disciplina atraves da maior parte do seculo 20, nao 'e mais um guia ideal.
Its vision of biology now realized, the molecular paradigm has run its course. Biology, therefore, has a choice to make, between the comfortable path of continuing to follow molecular biology's lead or the more invigorating one of seeking a new and inspiring vision of the living world, one that addresses the major problems in biology that 20th century biology, molecular biology, could not handle and, so, avoided.
PELA VISAO DA BIOLOGIA AGORA SENDO REALIZADA, o paradigma molecular tem saido fora do curso. A biologia, portanto, tem uma escolha a fazer, entre o confortavel caminho de continuar seguindo a lideranca da biologia molecular ou o mais vigoroso caminho de procurar uma nova e inspiradora visao do mundo vivo, uma que aborde os maiores problemas em biologia que a biologia do seculo 20, nao pode manipular, e portanto, evitou.
The former course, though highly productive, is certain to turn biology into an engineering discipline. The latter holds the promise of making biology an even more fundamental science, one that, along with physics, probes and defines the nature of reality. This is a choice between a biology that solely does society's bidding and a biology that is society's teacher.
O pasado curso, considerado altamente produtivo, com certeza esta tornando biologia numa disciplina de engenharia. O novo curso entalha a promessa de fazer da biologia uma ciencia mais fundamental, uma que ao lado da Fisica, toque e define a natureza da realidade. Esta e' uma escolha entre uma biologia que apenasfz o quea sociedade demanda, controla, uma biologia que seja um ensino para a sociedade.
INTRODUCTION
Science is an endless search for truth. Any representation of reality we develop can be only partial. There is no finality, sometimes no single best representation. There is only deeper understanding, more revealing and enveloping representations. Scientific advance, then, is a succession of newer representations superseding older ones, either because an older one has run its course and is no longer a reliable guide for a field or because the newer one is more powerful, encompassing, and productive than its predecessor(s).
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