01 FEB 2012 by ideonexus
Biology has Principles and Logic
I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had principles and logic ... [rather than dealing with a] messy thing called life. It just wasn't organized, and I wanted to stick with the nice pristine sciences of chemistry and physics, where everything made sense. I wish I had learned sooner that biology could be fun as well. Francis Collins describes how he came to love biology after initially dismissing it as rote memorization.