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

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

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

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 discover generalizations about evolving systems, we will have to look at artificial ones.

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

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Language changes very fast.