32 Quotes About Memes

You're either with us... or you're with the memes!

-George W. Bush

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

-Daniel Dennett

  • Author Richard Dawkins
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    Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

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Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

-Richard Dawkins

  • Author Toyin Odutola
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    I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

-Toyin Odutola

  • Author Matt Ridley
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    The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

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The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

-Matt Ridley

 

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