Computers Quote by Susan Blackmore

Human beings are just gene machines.

— Richard Dawkins

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

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 do not imitate, but are a model to others.

— Pericles

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

“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

“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

“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

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

— Richard Dawkins

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

— George Monbiot

Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse

— Frans De Waal

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very…

— Richard Dawkins