 He criticised the traditional natural history style of biology, including the study of evolution, as immature science, since it relied on narrative.Woodger set out to play for biology the role of Robert Boyle's 1661 "Sceptical Chymist", intending to convert the subject into a formal, unified science, and ultimately, following the Vienna Circle of logical positivists like Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, to reduce biology to physics and chemistry.His efforts stimulated the biologist J.