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.
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored. - John Maynard Smith
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.
- John Maynard Smith
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… - John Maynard Smith
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…
Societies depend on agreed rules. - John Maynard Smith
Societies depend on agreed rules.
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. - John Maynard Smith
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 original… - John Maynard Smith
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…
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up. - John Maynard Smith
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. - John Maynard Smith
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
You couldn't have human society without language. - John Maynard Smith
You couldn't have human society without language.
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… - John Maynard Smith
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…
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