Quotes by : Jacques Monod

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

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

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

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

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

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

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything it can even lead to vision itself.

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

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

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