Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.

The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

In America, we have the greatest businesspeople in the world. We have to use them to negotiate our trade deals.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.