"Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish."
- Abhijit Naskar
"People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have mixed up ultimate causation (why something evolved by natural selection) with proximate causation (ho..."
- Steven Pinker
"The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations. [I]t is widely distributed in space am..."
- Richard Dawkins