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> [It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/it-is-natural-selection-that-gives-direction-to-changes-orients/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

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## More by Francois Jacob

> [“What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/what-man-seeks-to-the-point-of-anguish-in-his-gods-in-his-art-in-his/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/contrary-to-what-i-once-thought-scientific-progress-did-not-consist/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [Evolution is a tinkerer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/evolution-is-a-tinkerer/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/for-me-this-world-of-questions-and-the-provisional-this-chase-after/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [“To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible. Scientific advances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/to-produce-a-valuable-observation-one-has-first-to-have-an-idea-of/)

[François Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/it-is-natural-selection-that-gives-direction-to-changes-orients/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [I think I’ve just thought up something important,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/i-think-i-ve-just-thought-up-something-important/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/it-is-hope-that-gives-life-meaning-and-hope-is-based-on-the-prospect/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/nature-is-a-tinkerer-not-an-inventor/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/myths-and-science-fulfill-a-similar-function-they-both-provide-human/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/one-of-the-deepest-functions-of-a-living-organisms-is-to-look-ahead/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/the-game-was-that-of-continually-inventing-a-possible-world-or-a/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [I had turned my anxiety into my profession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/i-had-turned-my-anxiety-into-my-profession/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/the-place-of-no-shadows-in-isaac-asimovs-science-fiction-magazine/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

> [In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-jacob/in-today-s-vastly-expanded-scientific-enterprise-obsessed-with-impact/)

[Francois Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-jacob/)

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