Frasi di Jacques Monod

Jacques Lucien Monod è stato un biologo e filosofo francese, vincitore del Premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1965.

Ricevette numerose altre onorificenze e distinzioni, tra le quali la medaglia della Legion d'onore. Ha inoltre partecipato alla resistenza francese al nazismo durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Febbraio 1910 – 31. Maggio 1976
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“Un altro aspetto curioso della teoria dell'evoluzione è che tutti pensano di capirla!”

dalla conferenza in memoria di Herbert Spencer: citato in Richard Dawkins, Il gene egoista, traduzione di Giorgio Corte e Adriana Serra, Oscar Mondadori 1995, cap. 2, p. 21

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“What I consider completely sterile is the attitude, for instance, of Bertalanffy who is going around and jumping around for years saying that all the analytical science and molecular biology doesn’t really get to interesting results; let’s talk in terms of general systems theory … there cannot be anything such as general systems theory, it’s impossible. Or, if it existed, it would be meaningless.”

Monod (1974) "On chance and necessity". In F. J. Ayala & T. Dobzhansky, (Eds.), Studies in the philosophy of biology. cited in: Brian R. Gaines (1979) " General systems research: quo vadis? http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/reports/SYS/GS79/GS79.pdf", General Systems, Vol. 24 (1979), p. 4

“One day, almost exactly 25 years ago - it was at the beginning of the bleak winter of 1940 - I entered André Lwoff’s office at the Pasteur Institute. I wanted to discuss with him some of the rather surprising observations I had recently made.
I was working then at the old Sorbonne, in an ancient laboratory that opened on a gallery full of stuffed monkeys. Demobilized in August in the Free Zone after the disaster of 1940, I had succeeded in locating my family living in the Northern Zone and had resumed my work with desperate eagerness. I interrupted work from time to time only to help circulate the first clandestine tracts. I wanted to complete as quickly as possible my doctoral dissertation, which, under the strongly biometric influence of Georges Teissier, I had devoted to the study of the kinetics of bacterial growth. Having determined the constants of growth in the presence of different carbohydrates, it occurred to me that it would be interesting to determine the same constants in paired mixtures of carbohydrates From the first experiment on, I noticed that, whereas the growth was kinetically normal in the presence of certain mixtures (that is, it exhibited a single exponential phase), two complete growth cycles could be observed in other carbohydrate mixtures, these cycles consisting of two exponential phases separated by a-complete cessation of growth.”

Introduction
From enzymatic adaptation to allosteric transitions (1965)

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