Jacques Monod Quote

There is and will remain a Platonic element in science which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.


Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, trans. Austryn Wainhouse (1972)


There is and will remain a Platonic element in science which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular...

There is and will remain a Platonic element in science which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular...

There is and will remain a Platonic element in science which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular...

There is and will remain a Platonic element in science which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular...