Astonishment Quote by Richard Dawkins

“We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with…

— Richard Dawkins

“there is a pressure for genes to be selfish, but in an enlightened way, to collaborate, coordinate, and play their small part in ensuring…

— Daniel Bor

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

— Jane Goodall

Human beings are just gene machines.

— Richard Dawkins

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

— Rodney Brooks

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

— Matt Ridley

“The gene is the basic unit of selfishness.”

— Richard Dawkins

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are…

— Richard Dawkins

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach…

— Monica Hesse

Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“Because that DNA is the whole reason we exist, still preserved long after most of humanity ascended into super-intelligent human-robot hybrids. Humans are just…

— Samuel Peralta

We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.

— Bob Proctor