Noam Chomsky on the Limits of Science

Take, say, physics, which restricts itself to extremely simple questions. If a molecule becomes too complex, they hand it over to the chemists. If it becomes too complex for them, they hand it to biologists. And if the system is too complex for them, they hand it to psychologists ... and so on until it ends up in the hands of historians or novelists. As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

From this interview about his new book in which he suggests "that many components of human nature are just too complicated to be really researchable" — Everything Was a Problem and We Did Not Understand a Thing. Too bad he doesn't follow the line to where it ultimately leads...