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• 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…
• 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.

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