I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Language changes very fast.

Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

Always just remember that you can never know all you're always going to be learning there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

With rebellion, awareness is born

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.

I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.

Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.