Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Richard Dawkins, quote from The Selfish GeneīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.” They have come a long way, those replicators. They are in you and in me they created us, body and mind and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, communicating with it by tortuous indirect routes, manipulating it by remote control. But do not look for them floating loose in the sea they gave up that cavalier freedom long ago. They did not die out, for they are past masters of the survival arts. What weird engines of self-preservation would the millennia bring forth? Four thousand million years on, what was to be the fate of the ancient replicators? “Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their own continuation in the world? There would be plenty of time for improvement.
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