Paul Conti

It's not just a jump to saying, oh, there's a religious answer to everything.

No, it's saying,

Science isn't a god either, right?

So if we think of science as a tool and not as an endpoint in and of itself, what is the science telling us?

I remember showing up at medical school, and it really is true.

I mean, I knew so little about the human body.

I'd only been in hospitals to visit people.

I'd taken pre-med classes, but sort of intensely at once after I didn't take any and I was working in business.

I knew next to nothing.

And I had this idea that was so naive in retrospect that I was going to learn so much.

I was gonna answer these questions, because I was gonna learn what's going on in the body.

What are these organs doing?

What are these cells?

And what I learned was,

There was so much more that was amazing and mysterious and seemingly impossible.

Like even how a cell functions, right?

Like what is going on inside of a cell?

The transport mechanisms and energy functions and diffusion functions.

And then you can go down to smaller levels than that.

But when you come back out and you say, how will those cells make a kidney?