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François Jacob
(17 Jun 1920 - )
French biologist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering research into molecular genetics.
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Science Quotes by François Jacob (2)
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.
— François Jacob
'Evolution and Tinkering', Science (1977), 196, 1163.
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.
— François Jacob
The Possible and the Actual (1982), 9.
