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. — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations. — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void.… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible. Scientific advances… — François Jacob Copy Share Image
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
