The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene
“How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature...”
“Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every ba...”
“A four-letter alphabet called DNA.”
“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can e...”
“None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.”
“When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.”
“Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The ...”
“Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a mouse, and both are quite different from an oak tree. Yet in their f...”
“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they ta...”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”
“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”