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

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

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.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Why settle for failure when winning is already your God's given destiny?

You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.