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François Jacob
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“The dream of every cell is to become two cells.”
François Jacob (1920–2013) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Originated from paraphrase of a paragraph in Chance and Necessity (1970, p20) by Jacques Monod:
“Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.”
François Jacob (1920–2013) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evolution and tinkering (1977)