“A foreign publisher of my first book [ The Selfish Gene ] confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“even with selfish genes at the helm, nice guys can finish first.” — Richard Dawkins 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
“My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. .… — 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
