Quotes by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes a — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes a — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inqui — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inqui — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards so — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards so — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere prese — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere prese — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes t — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes t — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothin — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothin — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the ge — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the ge — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves that the replicators — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves that the replicators — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
What, after all, is so special about genes? The answer is that they are replicators. The laws of physics are supposed to — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
What, after all, is so special about genes? The answer is that they are replicators. The laws of physics are supposed to — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
The essential quality that an entity needs, if it is to become an effective gene vehicle, is this. It must have an impar — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
The essential quality that an entity needs, if it is to become an effective gene vehicle, is this. It must have an impar — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes? — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes? — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used—against — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used—against — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Consider again the mated pair with which we began the chapter. Both partners, as selfish machines, ‘want’ sons and daugh — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Consider again the mated pair with which we began the chapter. Both partners, as selfish machines, ‘want’ sons and daugh — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
We have looked at some of the things that a female might do if she has been deserted by her mate. But these all have the — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
We have looked at some of the things that a female might do if she has been deserted by her mate. But these all have the — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene