The way you put it does seem to disparage biologists, yes. The biologists are doing work that is qualitatively different from what physicists do, and that produces results the physicists never will (without the aforementioned thousand tons of computronium, at least). In a very real sense, biologists are exploring an entirely different ideaspace from the one the physicists live in. No amount of investigation into physics in isolation would have given us the theory of evolution, for instance.
And weirdly, I’m not a biologist; I’m an apprentice physicist. I still recognize that they’re doing something I’m not, rather than something that I might get around to by just doing enough physics to make their results obvious.
The way you put it does seem to disparage biologists, yes. The biologists are doing work that is qualitatively different from what physicists do, and that produces results the physicists never will (without the aforementioned thousand tons of computronium, at least). In a very real sense, biologists are exploring an entirely different ideaspace from the one the physicists live in. No amount of investigation into physics in isolation would have given us the theory of evolution, for instance.
And weirdly, I’m not a biologist; I’m an apprentice physicist. I still recognize that they’re doing something I’m not, rather than something that I might get around to by just doing enough physics to make their results obvious.