Apollom Quotes

“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 apparatus of replicases, etc. Secondly, it has effects on the outside world, which influence the chances of its copies’ surviving.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“But there is nothing magic about Darwinian fitness in the genetic sense. There is no law giving it priority as the fundamental quantity that is maximized. Fitness is just a way of talking about the survival of replicators, in this case genetic replicators. If another kind of entity arises, which answers to the definition of an active germ-line replicator, variants of the new replicator that work for their own survival will tend to become more numerous. To be consistent, we could invent a new kind of ‘individual fitness’, which measured the success of an individual in propagating his memes.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“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.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“If the organism is not a replicator, what is it? The answer is that it is a communal vehicle for replicators. A vehicle is an entity in which replicators (genes and memes) travel about, an entity whose attributes are affected by the replicators inside it, an entity which may be seen as a compound tool of replicator propagation.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

“If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7”
― Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

“Selection favours those genes which succeed in the presence of other genes, which in turn succeed in the presence of them.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“Tienes que despertarte cada día decidido si quieres acostarte satisfecho.”
― Hal Elrod, Mañanas milagrosas: Los 6 hábitos que cambiarán tu vida antes de las 8:00

“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.”
― Napoleon Hill, The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity

“Thank”
― Nona J. Fairfax, The Princess Unicorn

“In the References section, I’ve included a website address and a QR code for the full list of the nearly five thousand citations referenced throughout this book.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet

“I’m such a stickler for veracity that I hired nine fact-checkers to go through every citation of the How Not to Die manuscript, and I committed to the same rigor with this book.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet