Today’s Line from the Literature
From S. Sarkar (1991), Genetics, 127, 257-261. (PDF):
“[The talk on the "Statistical Theory of Bacterial Mutations"] was attended, Delbruck (1946) observed, ‘by those who took the phage course this year and by a few outsiders, mostly people to whom algebra is more strange than Chinese.’”
It seems the paucity of mathematical prowess in biology was evident even back then.
