Replicator Quotes

#1. For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

Richard Dawkins

#2. I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drfiting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting far behind.

Richard Dawkins

#3. 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 not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

Susan Blackmore

#4. Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.

Peter Diamandis

#6. Change for someone today and tomorrow you will hear them say, "You are not the same.

Akash Lakhotia

#7. Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

#8. When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

John Cleese

#9. I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.

Blake Lively

#10. No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.

Amy Winehouse

#11. To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

Anthony De Mello

#12. Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#13. Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

Ross Levinsohn

#14. I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#15. The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.

Russell Crowe

#16. I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe.

Bethany Mota