I don&#x27;t think that abstraction is particularly useful because beyond extremely simple systems, approaching things from physics becomes 1.) not possible because we don&#x27;t actually know enough and&#x2F;or 2.) intractable because there are too many variables&#x2F;actors at play.<p>You can get insight from physics, but physics doesn&#x27;t actually help you much when it comes to actually making a molecule, or figuring out how to avoid reacting with one part of a molecule while selectively modifying another.<p>In other words chemistry is to physics as computer science is to math. They&#x27;re related, you could say one is reducible to the other, but that&#x27;s not a useful construct in practice.