"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 unfe…"

"If [the emergence of the human species] was unique, as may perhaps have been the appearance of life itself, then befo…"

"What I consider completely sterile is the attitude, for instance, of Bertalanffy who is going around and jumping arou…"

"One day, almost exactly 25 years ago - it was at the beginning of the bleak winter of 1940 - I entered ’s office at t…"

"From then on I read avidly the first publications by the "phage-church", and when I entered Lwoff’s department at the…"

"There is in science, however, quite a gap between belief and certainty. But would one ever have the patience to wait …"

"We might begin with Jacques Monod. Monod was a great figure whose scientific work I much admire, and was, essentially…"

"Jacob and Monod found that in bacteria, genes are switched on and off by other genes. This led them to distinguish be…"