<p>What type of science is Biology and Chemistry? Hard or soft?</p>
<p>I’ve always been told that Chemistry was a hard science; however, I’ve heard Biology classified as both hard and soft on difference occasions.</p>
<p>Don’t know anyone that would say Chem is a soft major. It’ll be like saying Physics or Math is a soft major; it isn’t.</p>
<p>Yeah Organic Chemistry is infamous for filtering out pre-med students and it’s not even the hardest Chemistry class.</p>
<p>Most people use the terms “hard” and “soft” with respect to sciences as indicators of their quantitative content. </p>
<p>Biology can be taught either way, although many predict that the future of biology must be as quantitative as physics.</p>
<p>Bioinformatics, computational biology, and systems biology are three examples of modern biological disciplines for which mathematical and statistical skills are essential.</p>
<p>Who cares? “Hard” and “soft” are not meaningful terms. You’ll get more enlightening answers from a factual question.</p>