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
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in...,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
