Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

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.

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.

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

Language changes very fast.

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t.

Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow.

A lot of people think that keying a car isn't the right way to get back at a guy. I disagree.

I have actively called them [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg], and been like, "Will you put me in your next movie?"

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.