Acting Quote by Neill Blomkamp

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think…

— Richard Dawkins

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or…

— Richard Dawkins

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could…

— Isabella Rossellini

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for…

— Lewis Thomas

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

— David Rakoff

Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they…

— Jerome Kagan

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

— Max Beerbohm

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of…

— Lewis Thomas

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

— Richard Dawkins

Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good,…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that…

— Ben Bernanke

“an iron rule exists in genetic social evolution. It is that selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, while groups of altruists beat groups of selfish…

— Edward O. Wilson