“ Theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen Armand Marie Leroi
“ That where now there are two cases once there were 159, the rest having been destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1944. Armand Marie Leroi
“ In 2010 JCVI-syn1.0, the world’s first artificial cellular life form, fired its molecular motors. Armand Marie Leroi
“ 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. Armand Marie Leroi
“ Aristotle says that ‘nature makes instruments to fit the function, not the function to fit the instrument’. Armand Marie Leroi
“ A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit. Armand Marie Leroi
“ The ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point. Armand Marie Leroi
“ 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. Armand Marie Leroi
“ No one cranks the clockwork, no one points the little machine in the right direction – nature does. Armand Marie Leroi
“ 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. Armand Marie Leroi
