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

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

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.

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

Language changes very fast.

Death is not the end.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.

The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

I fell in love with a man, not a Beatle.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

[The Democrats'] vision for the future: socialized medicine and Washington-run health care.