Gian-Carlo Rota Quote

Biologists seldom have the mathematical view that is required to spot problems in the mathematics of biology that are staring at them. A biologist will never see anything deeper than binomial coefficients. It is not that the problems aren't there; rather, biologists don't have the view that comes with a solid education in mathematics.

Indiscrete Thoughts - Chapter XX (p. 213), Birkhauser. 1997