"There are living systems; there is no'living matter'."

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Source : 1967 Lecture, College of France.

Jacques Monod

“The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.”
“Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.”
“They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.”
“I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.”
“Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!”
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”
“I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.”
“I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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