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1: Peter Thiel

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Are We in a New Orchard?

physics gave us atomic devices, an nuclear power and ended world war to definitively. Theoretical physicists invented molecular biology, the communications revolution,. All these things came out of physics. But it's very strange to me that we had the three dimensional structure of na in 53. We had the genetic code ten years later, and we've had very little in the way of, letsay, gean therapy to show for all our new found knowledge. It feels like somehow we're in a new orchard, but we haven't found the low hanging fruit in biology.

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