"For me, this world of questions and the……" — 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 that was euphoric. I lived in the future."
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14 Quotes by Francois Jacob
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Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of…
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Evolution is a tinkerer.
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The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of…
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The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a…
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In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to…
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Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and…
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I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
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Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.
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The dream of every cell is to become two cells.
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I think I’ve just thought up something important,
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One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
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It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to…
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