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.
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… - Francois Jacob
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up…
- Francois Jacob
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks b… - Francois Jacob
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks b…
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed t… - Francois Jacob
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed t…
I had turned my anxiety into my profession. - Francois Jacob
I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and … - Francois Jacob
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and …
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 liv… - 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 liv…
The dream of every cell is to become two cells. - Francois Jacob
The dream of every cell is to become two cells.
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. - Francois Jacob
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
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 w… - 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 w…
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