Quotes from Armand Marie Leroi

We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others.

that where now there are two cases once there were 159, the rest having been destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1944.

Aristotle says that 'nature makes instruments to fit the function, not the function to fit the instrument'.

No one cranks the clockwork, no one points the little machine in the right direction – nature does.

In 2010 JCVI-syn1.0, the world's first artificial cellular life form, fired its molecular motors.

The distinction between artefact and organism dissolved in a Petri dish.

When, therefore, we ask what ageing is for we must give the peculiar answer that it isn't for anything; it is, instead, the evolved consequence of there being no reason to stay alive.

I will not allow the Athenians to commit a second crime against philosophy.

the ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point.

Elected officials deposed each other by lawsuits.

From this point of view, a male cuttlefish who copulates with a dead female is not only wasting his time but making a serious philosophical mistake.

I should have had to look under its

Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.

A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit.

shaggy coat, and its stance made

theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen