[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is… — Quentin S. Crisp 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
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme… — Charles Stross 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
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and… — Susan Blackmore 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
I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. — Keith Henson 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
In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a… — Tim Ward 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
“They say, and I have reason to believe, that in times of intellectual laziness we are at our most genus when we… — LampoonTop's 1925 autobiographica Copy Share Image
Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image