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Survival Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind
- 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…
- God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- 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…
- Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent…
- As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
More Survival Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government.… — Michael Badnarik
- Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez
- For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to… — Gary Bauer
- It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from… — Melody Beattie
- It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have… — Ingrid Bergman