Civilization Quote by Jay Roach

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

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

“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

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than…

— Richard Dawkins

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

— Saul Bellow

Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but…

— Eric Betzig

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

Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people that care…

— Anthony Fantano

You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an…

— Jay Roach

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a…

— Daniel Dennett

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and…

— Terence McKenna

“replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari