Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is. — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Remember back in the day when Internet memes were funny? I miss those days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't debunk memes with facts. It's like bringing tap-shoes to a gunfight. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
“Politics is scripted for maximum shock that will lead to gossip and speculation. We are living in a sketch comedy zone. Everything… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We're [also] trying to talk to a generation who grew up on the Internet. They're digital natives, and, essentially, they speak through… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
“Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
“Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Words exist. What are they made of? Air under pressure? Ink? Some instances of the word "cat" are made of ink, and… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image