All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

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.

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

Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history.

I have ascended to the highest in me, and look, the Word is towering above that. I have descended to explore my lowest depths, and I found Him deeper still.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Only you're right in saying she's too good an opinion of herself to think of you. The saucy jade! I should like to know where she'd find a better!

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.