Biology Quote by David DiSalvo

“Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment … The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme. In cultural…

— James Gleick

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time,…

— James Gleick

“it's in the genes”

— Lois Denny

“evolution is about reproduction, passing on copies of genes.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.”

— Richard Dawkins

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…

— Richard Dawkins

“But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the…

— Daniel C. Dennett

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for…

— Richard Dawkins

“We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.”

— Richard Dawkins

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…

— Susan Blackmore