Altruism Quote by E. O. Wilson

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think…

— Richard Dawkins

“Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes…

— Robert Wright

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each…

— Stephen Cole Kleene

“an iron rule exists in genetic social evolution. It is that selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, while groups of altruists beat groups of selfish…

— Edward O. Wilson

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to…

— Tobias Dantzig

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could…

— Isabella Rossellini

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort…

— Terence Tao

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

— Norman L. Biggs

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

— Tom Lehrer

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

— David Gross

And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school…

— Charlie Munger

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck