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I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

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Jacques Monod

The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

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

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What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

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Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution. . . It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup. "

Blind, Root, Roots, Science, Sole, Squares

There are living systems; there is no living "matter. " No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.

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In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Agony, Anxiety, Research, Science, Scientist, Self
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