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Viruses Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
- It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think…
- 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…
- Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances…
- Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence…
- When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just…
More Viruses Quotes
- Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no… — William S. Burroughs
- Language is a virus from outer space. — William S. Burroughs
- Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings… — William S. Burroughs
- Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. — Maya Angelou
- Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and… — Harry Belafonte
- A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part… — Max Delbruck
- It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's… — Gertrude B. Elion
- Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. — Unknown Author
- But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser
- Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the… — Kelly Miller
- Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. — Hubert H. Humphrey
- In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to… — Prince Philip