Biology Quote 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.…

— 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…

— Francois Jacob

Evolution is a tinkerer.

— 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…

— 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…

— François 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…

— Francois Jacob

I think I’ve just thought up something important,

— 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…

— Francois Jacob

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

— 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…

— 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…

— Francois Jacob

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

— Francois Jacob