John Maynard Smith Quotes
- Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
- It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.
- I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.
- Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
- Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
- The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
- Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.
- Language changes very fast.
- Societies depend on agreed rules.
- You couldn't have human society without language.
- Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.