“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

“We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and w...”

“Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.”

“Whatever the claims of memes to be regarded as replicators in the same sense as genes, the first part of this chapter established that individual organisms are not replicators.”

“Returning, for clarification, to DNA as our archetypal replicator, its consequences on the world are of two important types. Firstly, it makes copies of itself, making use of the cellular ap...”