Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

Quotes

• “Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes a...”
• “Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere prese...”
• “We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a...”
• “The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inqui...”