Richard Dawkins Quotes About Survival

• God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religion, Survival, Culture

  Richard Dawkins (1989). “The Selfish Gene”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

• La naturaleza no es cruel, sólo despiadadamente indiferente. Esta es una de las lecciones más difíciles de aprender para los humanos. No podemos admitir que las cosas no sean ni buenas ni malas, ni crueles ni amables, sino simplemente insensibles, indiferentes a todo sufrimiento, carentes de todo propósito.

  Richard Dawkins

  Naturaleza, Aprendizaje, Ciencia

  Richard Dawkins (1995). "Río fuera del edén: una visión darwiniana de la vida", Basic Books (AZ)

• Somos máquinas de supervivencia, vehículos robóticos programados ciegamente para preservar las moléculas egoístas conocidas como genes. Es una verdad que aún me llena de asombro.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Science, Survival

  1976 The Selfish Gene, ch.2.

• Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

  Richard Dawkins

  Survival, Evolution, Blind

• The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Survival, Machines, Body

• Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Animal, Space

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

• En la verdadera selección natural, si un cuerpo tiene lo necesario para sobrevivir, sus genes sobreviven automáticamente porque están dentro de él. Así pues, los genes que sobreviven tienden a ser, automáticamente, aquellos que confieren a los cuerpos las cualidades que les ayudan a sobrevivir.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Survival, Quality

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

• All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

  Richard Dawkins

  Humanity, Survival, Entity

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.423, Oxford University Press

• Los individuos no son cosas estables, son fugaces. Los cromosomas también se barajan en el olvido, como las manos de cartas poco después de repartirse. Pero las cartas sobreviven a la mezcla. Las cartas son los genes. Los genes no se destruyen al cruzarse, simplemente cambian de pareja y siguen adelante. Por supuesto que siguen adelante. Ése es su cometido. Ellos son los replicantes y nosotros sus máquinas de supervivencia. Cuando hemos cumplido nuestra función, nos desechan. Pero los genes son habitantes del tiempo geológico: los genes son para siempre.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hands, Forever, Survival

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.56, Oxford University Press

• I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Deep Understanding

• Están en ti y en mí; nos crearon, cuerpo y mente; y su preservación es la razón última de nuestra existencia. Esos replicantes han avanzado mucho. Ahora se llaman genes, y nosotros somos sus máquinas de supervivencia.

  Richard Dawkins

  Names, Long, Survival

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.41, Oxford University Press

• I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian survival value, Darwinian selection in favor of religion. None of that of course bears at all upon the truth value of the claims made by religions.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Survival, Favors

  "Faith and Reason" Interview, www.pbs.org.

• You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to believe your parents when they tell you don't go near the edge of the cliff, or don't pick up that snake, etc. There could very well be a Darwinian survival value in that sort of brain rule of thumb. And a by-product of that could be that you believe your parents when they tell you about the juju in the sky, or whatever it might be.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Sky, Snakes

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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