Francois Jacob Quotes

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• Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed…
• Evolution is a tinkerer.
• The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real…
• 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…
• 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 that…
• For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that…
• Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from…
• I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
• Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.
• The dream of every cell is to become two cells.
• I think I’ve just thought up something important,
• One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
• It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into…
• 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…

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