24 Quotes by 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.

You couldn’t have human society without language.

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.

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

In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.

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