Quotes by : Jacques Monod

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

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.

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

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....

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

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

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