Jacques Monod

Person · Open Library

Works

26

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1990

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

29

Total plays

125

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries

   · 2021 · cited 79,244x

2. Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries

   · 2018 · cited 53,830x

3. Global cancer statistics

   · 2011 · cited 23,192x

4. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

   · 2014 · cited 21,629x

5. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries

   · 2024 · cited 20,680x

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Quotes

• “The first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature: nature does not have any intention or goal.”
• “Anything found to be true of E. coli must also be true of elephants.”
• “The universe is not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. ... Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.”
• “If [the emergence of the human species] was unique, as may perhaps have been the appearance of life itself, then before it did appear its chances of doing so were infinitely slender. The universe was not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. Our number came up in the Monte Carlo game.”
• “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.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jacques

Gender

male

Citizenship

France

Place of birth

Casablanca

Place of death

13th arrondissement of Paris

Occupation

film actor

Languages spoken

French

Conflict

World War II

Image

JacquesMonod-Italie-1973.png

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