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

So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a second. If we want to dis….

You couldn't have human society without language..

Societies depend on agreed rules..

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

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 original….

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

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology..

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored..

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 exi….

As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure t….

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likel….

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 fre….

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

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble..

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 posit….

Language changes very fast..