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Possible Quotes by 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 supposed…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of… — Victoria Abril
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood