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John Maynard Smith

As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don’t think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

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Years

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 existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.

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Theory Of Evolution

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.

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Population

Thinking

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

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Genetics

Information

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

Believe

I Can

Suffering

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

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Criteria

Information

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.

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Risk

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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.

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Doe

Should

Language changes very fast.

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

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I Can

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Natural

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Quotes by John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith

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 existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.

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.

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

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

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

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.

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.

Language changes very fast.

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

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