John Maynard Smith

You couldn't have human society without language.

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

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.