François Jacob Quotes

François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. June 1920 – 19. April 2013
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François Jacob Quotes

“The dream of every cell is to become two cells.”

They not only obey them; they utilize them as a good engineer would, with maximum efficiency, to carry out the project and bring about the "dream" (as François Jacob put it) of every cell: to become two cells.
Source: Originated from paraphrase of a paragraph in Chance and Necessity (1970, p20) by Jacques Monod:

“Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.”

Evolution and tinkering (1977)

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