“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
“Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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