“Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
“In the beginning was simplicity.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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