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Robert Rosen

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American theoretical biologist (1934–1998)

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  • Nowhere man
  • Foundations of Mathematical Biology
  • Brooklyn Memoir
  • Why Did You Let Me Do That?
  • Optimality Principles in Biology

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  • The physical structures of organisms play only a minor and secondary role... The only requirement which physical structure must fulfill is that it allow the characteristic behaviors themselves to be manifested. Indeed, if this were not so, it would be impossible to understand how a class of systems as utterly diverse in physical structure as that which comprises biological organisms could be recognised as a unity at all.
  • I do not consider myself a philosopher. I am a biologist, attempting to grapple with the Schrodinger question, “What is Life?” It turns out that this is not an empirical question, to be resolved through observation in a laboratory.
  • On balance, the cartesian metaphor of organism as machine has proved to be a good idea. Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.
  • Perhaps the first lesson to be learned from biology is that there are lessons to be learned from biology.

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date of birth
1934-06-27
date of death
1998-12-28
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