Rosine Chandebois on the Blind Watchmaker

[From a colleague and friend:]

D’aucuns disent aveugle l’horloger qui a concu la vie, mais c’est son horologe
qui nous frappe tous de cecite: les uns aveugles par tant d’intelligence, les
autres etant les pires aveugles parce qu’ils n’en veulent rien voir.

[Some call blind the watchmaker who conceived of life, but it is his watch that
strikes all of us blind: some are blinded by so much intelligence, others are
blind in the worst way because they do not wish to see it at all.]

—Rosine Chandebois, Pour en finir avec le darwinisme [To Be Done With
Darwinism] (Editions Espaces, 1993).

(Chandebois is an experimental embryologist at the University of Marseille.)