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Excerpt from Of Flies, Mice, and Men, by François Jacob, translated by Giselle Weiss, published in February 1999 by Harvard University Press, ©1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Originally published as La Souris, la mouche et l'homme, Editions Odile Jacob, ©1997. Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press.
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Jacob, F. Understanding science and knowing ignorance. Nat Biotechnol 17 (Suppl 2), BV3–BV4 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/7145
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