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Jacques Monod

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French actor (1918–1985)

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Works
26

Top works

  • On the Philosophy and Religion
  • Przypadek i konieczność
  • Hasard et la Nécessité
  • Le Hasard Et La Nécessité
  • Chance and Necessity

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Type
Person
Active from
1990

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Total plays
125

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Quotes

  • The first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature: nature does not have any intention or goal.
  • Anything found to be true of E. coli must also be true of elephants.
  • The universe is not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. ... Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
  • If [the emergence of the human species] was unique, as may perhaps have been the appearance of life itself, then before it did appear its chances of doing so were infinitely slender. The universe was not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. Our number came up in the Monte Carlo game.
  • What I consider completely sterile is the attitude, for instance, of Bertalanffy who is going around and jumping around for years saying that all the analytical science and molecular biology doesn’t really get to interesting results; let’s talk in terms of general systems theory ... there cannot be anything such as general systems theory, it’s impossible. Or, if it existed, it would be meaningless.

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date of birth
1918-08-21
date of death
1985-12-24
start of work period
1947-00-00
Commons category
Jacques Monod (acteur)
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