Elephants Quote by Jacques Monod Download Open image “What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.” — Jacques Monod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elephants
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem. — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
When an elephant is by himself, he can attack lions and get away with it. — Dereck Chisora Copy Share Image
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
“An elephant trunk is a metaphor for a penis. But not just any penis—my penis.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Deep inside every animal colon, ours included, thrives an entire cosmos of creatures more strange and wondrous than any dreamed up in a Hollywood… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is;… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures it has… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember,… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light… — Baba Hari Dass Copy Share Image
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife. — Saadi Copy Share Image
