Je cherche à comprendre.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

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

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

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

The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

With love, don’t desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.