Jacques Monod Quotes

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of...

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still tryi...

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the ...

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

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two abso...

...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fund...

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a s...

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining...