Biology Quote by Robert E. Ornstein

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish…

— Chris Adami

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

— Sri Chinmoy

“Selfishness is the absence of selflessness”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory.…

— Edward O. Wilson

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With…

— Philip Larkin

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

— Gary Chapman

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

— Margaret Landon

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

— William E. Gladstone

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

— George Sand

“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and…

— Steven Pinker