“Philosophy and the subjects known as ‘humanities’ are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up.”
― Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
― Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
“لسان حال الرجل المتشدد يقول : " المطلوب اخفاء المرأة لانها تثير الوحش الذكوري الكامن في أعماقي " ... ومن غرائب مجتمعنا ( الراقد في قاع بئر التخلف ) اننا لا نسمع اصواتاً تقول لهذا المنطق . " ولماذا لايكون الحل من خلال تهذيبك وتهذيب هذا الوحش الذكوري الذي بداخلك ...؟ ”
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“Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their own continuation in the world? There would be plenty of time for improvement. What weird engines of self-preservation would the millennia bring forth? Four thousand million years on, what was to be the fate of the ancient replicators?
They did not die out, for they are past masters of the survival arts. But do not look for them floating loose in the sea; they gave up that cavalier freedom long ago. Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, communicating with it by tortuous indirect routes, manipulating it by remote control.
They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.”
― The Selfish Gene
They did not die out, for they are past masters of the survival arts. But do not look for them floating loose in the sea; they gave up that cavalier freedom long ago. Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, communicating with it by tortuous indirect routes, manipulating it by remote control.
They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.”
― The Selfish Gene
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