WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:29:04 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Jacob, Francois – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Jacob, Francois -- The Statue Within: An Autobiography (1987) [tr. Philip (1988)] https://wist.info/jacob-francois/38003/ https://wist.info/jacob-francois/38003/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:22:44 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38003 What Man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food. He denies that life bounces along at random, at the mercy of events, in sound and in fury. He wants it always to be directed, aimed toward a goal, like an arrow.


François Jacob (1920–2013) French biologist, Nobel prize winner in Medicine
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