An interesting, and amusing, disquisition on different scientific approaches:

I started to contemplate how biologists would determine why my radio does not work and how they would attempt to repair it. Because a majority of biologists pay little attention to physics, I had to assume that all we would know about the radio is that it is a box that is supposed to play music.

How would we begin? First, we would secure funds to obtain a large supply of identical functioning radios in order to dissect and compare them to the one that is broken. We would eventually find how to open the radios and will find objects of various shape, color, and size (Fig. 2, see color insert). We would describe and classify them into families according to their appearance. We would describe a family of square metal objects, a family of round brightly colored objects with two legs, round-shaped objects with three legs and so on. Because the objects would vary in color, we will investigate whether changing the colors affects the radio’s performance. Although changing the colors would have only attenuating effects (the music is still playing but a trained ear of some people can discern some distortion), this approach will produce many publications and result in a lively debate.

Thanks, Rand- that's a keeper!
More times than I care to remember I've found myself working electrical/electronic support on projects or studies with biologist P.I.'s
For some reason, those who remember Louis Pasteur are doomed to FORGET Georg Simon Ohm! LOL

Would a biologist fix a radio? Wouldn't he seal it in a jar of alcohol and keep it for 400 years?

The author clearly has a limited set of real life experiences. I am a biologist. Some of us can chew gum and walk at the same time - and fix radios - I built a Heathkit SW set once. And it worked - and the alcohol on hand was used for other purposes.

Now someone needs to write about how a physisist would study a tribe of chimpanzees...we'd get a new Uncertaintly Principle, at the least

Ooops, I meant "physicist."

WRT Physicists and chimps: maybe they'd discover (i.e. step in) all of the 'dark matter' the chimps leave lying around on the ground....

I am a biologist. Some of us can chew gum and walk at the same time - and fix radios

He wrote "...a majority of biologists pay little attention to physics..."

He didn't say all of them.

Here's another story:

A farmer asks a engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him the largest possible pen out of a fixed amount of fencing.

Without giving it a second thought, the engineer build the farmer a large, circular pen.

After a moment's consideration, the physicist builds a long straight piece of fence, and says, "We can consider the length of the fence to be infinite," pointing out that fencing off half the globe would be a more efficient solution.

The mathematics laughs gently at both of them, builds a tiny pen around himself, and says "I declare myself to be on the outside."

The person who wrote that joke originally must not have much real life experience. I have a math degree, and I know a lot of mathematicians, and none of them would solve that problem as the mathematician did in the story.