There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its o….

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaide….

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. Whil….

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his du….

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises..

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the re….

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmat….

Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the ro….

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident..

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant..

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'..

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it..

Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoin….

One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural select….

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; ….

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phe….

Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "spec….

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical ide….

The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intent….

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state so….

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profo….