Replicators Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

Charles Stross

#3. Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

K. Eric Drexler

#4. In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.

John Maynard Smith

#5. Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.

Susan Blackmore

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators

Richard Dawkins

#9. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

#10. I was living on Earth, where everything anyone needs pops out of replicators. Lack of professional credentials isn't really a big issue in the heartland of the Federation the way it is in other places, after all.

Michael A. Martin

#11. So, you want to see the house?" he asked, standing up. "Sure. Any cool futuristic gizmos you can show me? Food replicators or a holodeck or something?" "Funny. It's not Star Trek.

Brenda Hiatt

#12. Kiss every baby, and pet every dog. Walk slowly, and lie down when you're tired. What's next?

Amy Poehler

#13. Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.

Sir Harry Lauder

#14. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.

David Livingstone

#15. My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

Gabe Polsky

#16. Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

John Lydon

#17. Don't sail through life, without an anchor, a captain and a compass

Sonya Withrow

#18. History is the past that is definitely, hopefully not coming back.

Boris Zubry