Selfish Gene Theory Quotes & Sayings

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge. — Jack Welch

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself - and impossible to find anywhere else. — Nicolas Chamfort

Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations. [I]t is widely distributed in space among different individuals, and widely distributed in time over many generations. [A] successful gene will be one that does well in the environments provided by these other genes that it is likely to meet in lots of different bodies. — Richard Dawkins

You'll never know another man's struggle. You'll never know another man's pain. — David Reon Nguyen

A pragmatic person sees the dark and the light side of life, while an
idealist sees a life filled with colors. — Eraldo Banovac

He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship. — Rick Warren

Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that "animals try to spread their genes." That misstates the facts and it misstates the theory. Animals, including most people, know nothing about genetics and care even less. People love their children not because they want to spread their genes (consciously or unconsciously) but because they can't help it. That love makes them try to keep their children warm, fed, and safe. What is selfish is not the real motives of the person but the metaphorical motives of the genes that built the person. Genes "try" to spread themselves by wiring animals' brains so the animals love their kin and try to keep warm, fed, and safe. — Steven Pinker

It shouldn't surprise us that members of the same culture that gave us capitalism as the dominant economic model - based as it is on the insane notion that selfish individuals all attempting to maximally exploit each other will somehow create stable and healthy human communities (never mind that it never has and functionally cannot) - would give us variants of the selfish gene theory as the dominant biological model - based as it is on the equally insane notion that selfish individuals all attempting to maximally exploit each other will somehow create stable and healthy natural communities (never mind that it never has and functionally cannot). Both are justifications for what the dominant culture does: steal from everyone else. Absent — Derrick Jensen

I can envision calculations all the way to infinity," she said, as if in a trance. "I don't have to write them down. — Brian Herbert