Richard Dawkins Quote: Let us try to teach generosity and

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish."

— Richard Dawkins

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

— Richard Dawkins

From The Selfish Gene

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The Selfish Gene, Chapter 1

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators.

We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.