John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith FRSwas a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 January 1920
John Maynard Smith quotes about
evolution natural mathematics
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
criticism doe should
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.
mathematics easier clear
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
theory-of-evolution may facts
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.
information generations genetics
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
language humans human-society
You couldn't have human society without language.
information criteria certain
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.