Biology Quote by Richard Lewontin

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us…

— Colin Camerer

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

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

— Robert Aumann

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in…

— Anatol Rapoport

Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate…

— Elliott Sober

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species…

— David Deutsch

“There is an increasing (and disturbing) tendency of psychologists, biologists, and philosophers to Darwinize every aspect of human behavior, turning its study into a…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

— Richard Dawkins

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate…

— Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as…

— Donna J. Haraway

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

— Rudolf Steiner

Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these…

— Anatol Rapoport