Memes Quotes

28 quotes by 19 authors

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.… — Richard Dawkins
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion… — Richard Dawkins
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much… — Peter Watts
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient… — Charles Stross
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not… — Susan Blackmore
Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience… — Susan Blackmore
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in… — Susan Blackmore
Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear… — Jon Hamm
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. — Keith Henson
All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as… — Susan Blackmore
Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and so on. These… — Ken Wilber
You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes… — Tim Ward
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
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. — Richard Dawkins
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. — John Hodgman
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion'… — Nate Silver
I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends. — Taylor Swift
Words are memes that can be pronounced. — Daniel Dennett

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