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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Publius Cornelius Tacitus		Tuesday Jun 09, 2026
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Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal becausethe living world constituting but a tiny and very 'special' part of the universeit 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 ...

Quote Author: Jacques Monod

	Jacques Monod
	(1910-1976) Jacques Monod Chance and Necessity Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971, p xi - French biologist, 1965 Nobel Prize, resistance leader in WW2.

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Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal becausethe living world constituting but a tiny and very 'special' part of the universeit 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 ...