Francois Jacob Quotes

#1. I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.

Susumu Tonegawa

#2. Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

Francois Jacob

#3. 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 to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.

Francois Jacob

#4. One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead ... to produce future.

Francois Jacob

#5. What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.

Francois Jacob

#6. The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

Francois Jacob

#7. 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.

Francois Jacob

#8. I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.

Marlen Haushofer

#9. I'm sort of like a jeans and boots kind of girl. Casual comfortable. I like soft colors and solid colors.

Helena Mattsson

#10. The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

Francois Jacob

#11. Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

Desmond Green

#12. Evolution is a tinkerer.

Francois Jacob

#13. 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 better.

Francois Jacob

#14. I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear ... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

Robyn Hitchcock

#15. The concept of 'different' confines to nothing but mobility. We can be both commonplace and unique depending on the ground we occupy and the people we engage with.

Jay Mark Mateo Balmes

#16. I think I've just thought up something important,

Francois Jacob

#17. The people behind me are the people behind Aristide. They are just looking for better days.

Michel Martelly

#18. It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

Kristin Cashore

#19. In today's vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.

Francois Jacob

#20. I don't know if it's a actor thing or just growing as an adult, but the best thing I've learned is that everyone wants to do a great job, and everyone wants you to do a great job, too!

Christie Laing

#21. An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Daniel Kahneman

#22. I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

Francois Jacob

#23. It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

Francois Jacob