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Great and accurate thought Lynn Margulis:

Each new idea triggers criticism, especially in science, where criticism, in the form of obligatory peer-review of articles and the need to present repetitive experiments, has, in a way, been institutionalized. The Gaia hypothesis requires representatives of various branches of science: geologists, geochemists, atmosphere researchers and even meteorologists to go beyond the limits of their specialties. It forces them to study biology, especially microbiology.And this gives rise to resistance in the academic milieu because it forces you to act upon something which you didn’t know you wanted.
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And this is my paraphrase:
Each new idea triggers criticism, especially in science, where criticism, in the form of obligatory review of articles and the need to present repetitive experiments, has been institutionalized in a way. The Physics of Life requires representatives from various branches of knowledge to go beyond the limits of their own specialties. It forces them to study seemingly completely unrelated disciplines, such as biology, game theory, aeroelasticity and system theory. And this gives rise to resistance in the academic milieu because it forces you to act upon something which you didn’t know you wanted.