Dawkins Selfish Gene Quotes

#1. Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Charles Jencks

#2. No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily see that 'The Selfish Gene' on its own, without the large footnote of the book itself, might give an inadequate impression of its contents.

Richard Dawkins

#3. It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

Zora Neale Hurston

#4. I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

Abbas Kiarostami

#5. Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

William Penn

#6. It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves that the replicators come first, in importance as well as in history.

Richard Dawkins

#7. LOVE" is the Answer...
Whatever the Question....

Marianne

#8. What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.

Richard Dawkins

#9. I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.

Richard Dawkins

#10. Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies.

Richard Dawkins

#11. Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful.

Patricia Cornwell

#12. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12

Richard Dawkins

#13. Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. The '80s were all about 'Saturday Night's Main Event.'

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#15. The gene is the basic unit of selfishness.

Richard Dawkins

#16. I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

Adam Mansbach