Fundamental Laws of Biology

Abstract

To organize all knowledge in biology in a coherent axiomatic system like mathematics or physics has been a dream for every scientist. This paper investigates the question how to formulate a set of axioms or fundamental laws governing all biological phenomena. We are able to identify a broad class of phenomena in biology including human society cannot be explained or forecasted by the existing fundamental laws of physics. However, the combination of existing fundamental laws of physics with laws in the recently-created Choice Axiomatic System in physics seems to be able to cover all known biological phenomena. This result enables this paper to propose a complete set of fundamental laws of biology for the first time in the history. Establishing a complete set of fundamental laws of biology provides a solid foundation for theoretical biology, and points to new directions of future biophysics research. We conclude that biology should not have any fundamental law of its own, all fundamental laws of biology are simply a subset of fundamental laws of physics, and identifying this complete set of fundamental laws of biology opens the door for an axiomatization of biology, social science, and humanities.