Francois Jacob — French Scientist born on June 17, 1920,

François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff... (wikipedia)

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
Evolution is a tinkerer.
I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.