The study of biology ruins bath time for Leo Szilard forever!

>Another explanation for the failure of logic and observation alone to advance medicine is that unlike, say, politics, which uses a form of logic – mathematics – as its natural language, biology does not lend itself to logic. [Leo Szilard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Leo_Szilard.jpg), a prominent physicist, made this point when he complained that after switching from physics to biology he never had a peaceful bath again. As a physicist he would soak in the warmth of the bathtub and contemplate a problem, turn it in his mind, reason his way through it. But once he became a biologist, he constantly had to climb out of the bathtub to look up a fact. ________________________ **Source:** Barry, John M. “The Warriors.” *The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History*. Penguin Books, 2009. 24. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [Leo Szilard, born Leó Spitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard) ________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon]( https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**