Richard Dawkins

Altruism is a form of selfishness.

From The Selfish Gene

Memes are to culture what genes are to life.

From The Selfish Gene

The gene is the unit of natural selection.

From The Selfish Gene

We are all genes' way of making more genes.

From The Selfish Gene

Life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

From The Selfish Gene

We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

From The Selfish Gene

The selfish gene theory explains the apparent altruism in nature.

From The Selfish Gene

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

From The Selfish Gene

The selfish gene does not advocate selfishness, but rather explains it.

From The Selfish Gene

Selfishness spreads in a population not because of any innate quality of selfish individuals, but because of the way in which genes replicate.

From The Selfish Gene