But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

I wasn't really able to do the atomic physics research at a level that I was very happy with any more. I've never wanted to be one of those doddering old scientists who are 30 years behind the times.