Selfish Genes Quotes

#1. Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

Matt Ridley

#2. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules make us strategically altruistic, not reliably or universally altruistic.

Jonathan Haidt

#3. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Richard Dawkins

#4. In explaining the importance of understanding our biology, Dawkins writes; Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something which no other species has ever aspired to.

Peter Singer

#5. Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity.

Andrew Solomon

#6. 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

#7. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

Richard Dawkins

#9. It is one thing when the culture doesn't "get" adoption. What else could one expect when all of life is seen as the quest of "selfish genes" for survival? It is one thing when the culture doesn't "get" adoption and so speaks of buying a cat as "adopting" a pet.

Russell D. Moore

#10. Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Steven Pinker

#11. I'd leave, too, if I'd been held hostage against my ovaries for all that time. I'd have done more than just leave a few people unconscious behind me, too.

Alyssa Day

#12. I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am ... illumination.

Jaeda DeWalt

#13. If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#14. God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision

Sunday Adelaja

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

Richard Dawkins

#16. He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#17. You might be far from Allah, but, He is close to you! Turn to Him and you will find Him.

Suhaib Webb

#18. Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Jon Stewart

#19. I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Siri Hustvedt

#21. Four liars are about to be burned
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Sara Shepard

#22. The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

Bobby Gould

#23. No counsel have I to give to those that despair. Yet counsel I could give, and words I could speak to you. Will you hear them? They

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. Michelangelo didn't show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath - when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway.

James Patterson

#25. Don't blame your parents, don't blame your boyfriend, don't blame the weather. Accept the reality, embrace the challenge, and deal with it. Be in charge of your own life. Turn negatives into positives and be proud to be a woman.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#26. The Selfish Gene - he set off decades of debate by declaring: We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

James Gleick