Jacques Monod Quotes About Biology

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

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Vision, Definitions

  Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage

• The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Dna, Discovery

• Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .

  Jacques Monod

  Life, Believe, Men

  Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage

• Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.

  Jacques Monod

  Mean, Thinking, Theory Of Evolution

  "Evolution". Book edited by Mark Ridley, p. 389, 1997.

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