Is Biology the Misunderstood Science?

[pinball1970]

This thread has gone west.

Biology means something.

It is sets of complicated and integrated yet competing sets of systems that can sustain themselves under certain conditions and can pass that complexity on into the future with modification.

 

[BillTre]

"Joker."

or Court Jester.

Also reminds me of one of my favorite songs; Dylan's long, very complex ballad, modeled on playing cards: Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

 

[fresh_42]

Biology means something.

Yes, it literally means the science of life. But neither was this the question nor can it be defined shorter than that at all. The question was

If mathematics is the queen of the sciences because it can be applied in so many different situations.
And physics is the king of the sciences because its rules underlie everything in other fields,
Then biology is: ...

which cannot sufficiently cover the complexity of any science in general and biology in particular. So all that remains is, whether a certain slogan is appropriate or not. Any slogan is an impermissible reduction.