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This is a discussion and a venting space.

Any other high schoolers taking a physical science course this year?

Do you like it? Is it better or equally awesome as biology?

What do you think I think?


How are you doing?

Me? I've got an A, so I must be alright.

How much do you study?

Me? I probably don't study enough.

I took Bio and physical science in high school. I made an A in both classes, but in physical science I had the highest GPA of the class. That would probably be a different story in college I'm much better with biology than the physical sciences.

Probably the same for me in my class. I'm like the only person that does any work.

I took one required class during my freshman year of high school that integrated elements from physics and chemistry. It was one of the hardest classes I'd ever taken, and I barely passed.

During my sophomore year, I took Biology, which was much easier. I did much better in that class.

Physics is useful, fun, dependable, and can be reduced to cold equations. In short, it’s a science you can trust!

Biology is far too gooey and imprecise…

I can see where you're coming from, but higher-level biology is basically the messy and beautiful expansion of the laws of natural selection (which is easily expressed mathematically), the hereditary molecule DNA (which is the embodiment of pure information), and that fiddly chemistry bit.

Besides, Math > Physics

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature ... mune_fight

interesting article above. None of these areas that are neatly designated "chemistry" and "physics" in highschool and even undergraduate school are really so separate.

but, yeah, Biology is wet, messy, etc. and you have to memorize a lot of strange names. Physics is dry, clean, uses mathematics primarily, and even though in the long run it gets really crazy with the Quantum stuff, its certainly uncertain, reliably unreliable.

"Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting."

-- Ernest Rutherford

I always laugh that he got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

On topic, I'm taking both biology and chemistry. Prefer chemistry, but do well in both.

His model of the atom used physics to make mathematical predictions regarding such things a spectra. Slightly different from drawing Lewis diagrams, a far bit more different from merely building cladograms.

I'm a biologist. I have hopes that one day, biology will be a real science like physics is, with a rigorous mathematical foundation.

I think it's getting there. Since I've started my degree I've learnt buckets of maths as I can see that Bioinformatics is becoming quite important in the field. The genome itself is quite mathematical, pretty much quaternary code. Hopefully the ideas of entropy start to play a much bigger role in the field, life is most interesting in terms of entropy. I'd love to see it become as mathematical as Physics.

One science should not try to be another. Different subject matter requires different approach.

Anyhow, for me it is a long time back, but for what she is worth:

Biology - most interesting despite the inherent difficulty of precision and consistency

Chemistry - easiest given the structural consistency

Physics - introductory university course successful but not speaking to my mind structure.