“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
― The Selfish Gene
― 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.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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