"The game was that of continually inventing a……" — 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 real world... a race without end... What mattered more than the answers were the questions... 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... I had turned my anxiety into my profession."
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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 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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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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