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Observations at the scale of molecules and macromolecules are not only significant, but necessary. We can best understand how something works by breaking it down and learning about its individual constituent parts. However, this is not to say that we should ignore the big picture. Instead, scientists should try to conduct their research with both a large and small scale in mind, as this will ideally lead to an overall fuller understanding. We have covered two very important things so far:  the interaction of things on a small scale lead to an infinite number of new things, and while we may have classified molecules and macromolecules, we still have not explained why these improbable assemblies occur the way that they do. Also, do we know for sure that the atom is the smallest unit of matter? Is it possible that there is something else that we just haven't discovered yet because our technology isn't advanced enough?