"In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with……" — Francois Jacob
"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 remain about the workings of organisms."
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14 Quotes by Francois Jacob
Francois Jacob has 14 quotes on this site.
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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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For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off 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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More Competition Quotes
This quote is filed under Competition Quotes,
one of 1,541 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Competitions are for horses, not artists.
— Bela Bartok
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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with…
— Donald Berwick
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There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result…
— Annie Besant
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I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in…
— Justin Bieber
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No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do.…
— Mary J. Blige
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
— Usain Bolt
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Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that…
— Tom Brady
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Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
— Richard Branson
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Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding…
— Richard Branson
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The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up…
— Julie Burchill
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