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

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.

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

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

Investment is the best thing to do with time

I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

I write for ghosts

Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.