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

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.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

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

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

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