Societies depend on agreed rules.

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

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

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

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

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.

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