Biologist Quote by Matt Ridley

“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

“Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the…

— Richard Dawkins

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

— Ernst Mayr

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection,…

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on…

— Richard Dawkins

“meme simply as “that which is imitated.”

— David DiSalvo

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in…

— Richard Dawkins