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

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

- John Maynard Smith

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

- 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…

- John Maynard Smith

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

- John Maynard Smith

Societies depend on agreed rules.

- John Maynard Smith

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

- John Maynard Smith

You couldn't have human society without language.

- 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…

- John Maynard Smith