Community Quote by John Maynard Smith Download Open image “Societies depend on agreed rules.” — John Maynard Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community
In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted. — Philipp Lahm Copy Share Image
Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing a killed… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority;… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Rules must be respected... and if one wants to change then a consensus is required. — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally… — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that,… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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