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.

...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....

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

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