It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves that the replicators come first, in importance as well as in history.

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 meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.

Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.