“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“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
“When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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