Jacques Monod
Jacques Monod
Jacques Lucien Monod, a French biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 February 1910
CountryFrance
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Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.
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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 . . .