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The Selfish Gene
- 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.
from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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- Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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- Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imit... See more
from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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- The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner
from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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