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Genes Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
- Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.…
- What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they…
- The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with…
- If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such…
- In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes…
- Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected…
- What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking…
- Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic…
- When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great…
- At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
- I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
- Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because…
- We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me…
- Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the…
- We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to…
- Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
- An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet…
More Genes Quotes
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never… — A. S. Byatt
- Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. — Taylor Caldwell
- God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will… — Orson Scott Card
- I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people… — Jackie Chan
- From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all… — Deepak Chopra
- My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is… — John Cleese
- I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't… — George Clooney
- I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse. — Robin Cousins
- Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether… — Robert Winston
- I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles… — Robert Fulghum