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The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. ... Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.

Jacques Monod

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Jacques Monod
Age: 66 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 9
Died: 1976
Died: May 31
Biochemist
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French Resistance Fighter
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Physician
Paris
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Jacques Lucien Monod
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