Biology Quote by Francois Jacob Download Open image “Evolution is a tinkerer.” — Francois Jacob ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Evolution
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind.… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God,… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. — Richard Dawkins 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
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
