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== The Essential Incompleteness of All Science ==
== The Essential Incompleteness of All Science ==
In [Karl Popper|Popper's] view the attempts at methodological reduction are fruitful, however there are still residues or vicious circles that have prevented full scientific reductions to be accomplished.<ref name="CriticalAppraisals">{{cite book
In [[Karl Popper|Popper's]] view the attempts at methodological reduction are fruitful, however there are still residues or vicious circles that have prevented full scientific reductions to be accomplished.<ref name="CriticalAppraisals">{{cite book
|author=Philip Catton
|author=Philip Catton
|title=Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals
|title=Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals
|page=106
|page=106
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CpCL3qNlAgEC&pg=PA106&dq=Scientific+Reduction+and+the+Essential+Incompleteness+of+All+Science+Popper&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WpLXT-q0Jqfb4QTe1aCNAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Scientific%20Reduction%20and%20the%20Essential%20Incompleteness%20of%20All%20Science%20Popper&f=false
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CpCL3qNlAgEC&pg=PA106&dq=Scientific+Reduction+and+the+Essential+Incompleteness+of+All+Science+Popper&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WpLXT-q0Jqfb4QTe1aCNAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Scientific%20Reduction%20and%20the%20Essential%20Incompleteness%20of%20All%20Science%20Popper&f=false
|quote=}}</ref> As an example he is pointing at the origin of life and of the genetic code and suggests that we may be faced with the possibility that the origin of life (like [Singularity|the origin of physics]) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to reduce biology to chemistry and physics.<ref name="Incompleteness">{{cite book
|quote=}}</ref> As an example he is pointing at the origin of life and of the genetic code and suggests that we may be faced with the possibility that the origin of life (like [[Singularity|the origin of physics]]) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to reduce biology to chemistry and physics.<ref name="Incompleteness">{{cite book
|author=Karl R. Popper
|author=Karl R. Popper
|title=Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science. Quoted in Ayala, F. and Dobzhansky, T., eds., Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 270
|title=Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science. Quoted in Ayala, F. and Dobzhansky, T., eds., Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 270