THE FUSE

When I was a student, our professors often told us that human life is not long enough to master the enormous amount of knowledge produced by science. Their advice was simple: choose one subject, go deep into it, and try to understand it as well as possible. This advice was completely reasonable. As scientific knowledge expanded, it became impossible for one person to know everything. Biology became divided into molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology, and many other fields. The same happened in almost every area of science.