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.

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.

You can't make footprints in the sand of time if you're sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints in the sand of time?

This very moment is your greatest adventure.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!

I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.