16 best-selling philosophy books like The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Similar categories in Jerry A. Coyne's Why Evolution Is True book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve."

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

"Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves."

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

"If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31…"

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

"Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off…"

-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

Similar categories in Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"On peut démontrer ainsi ni la stérilité ni la fécondité ne fournissent aucune distinction certaines entre les espèces et les variétés."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very …"

-Stephen Hawking, Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Similar categories in Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"I don't know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Similar categories in Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"Consistency is the playground of dull minds"

-Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

"Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised."

-Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

"There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination."

-Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

"Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products - contributing to economic growth twice …"

-Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Similar categories in Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"Actually, the “leap of faith"

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Similar categories in Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Similar categories in Richard Dawkins's A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's Black Holes and Baby Universes book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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Similar categories in Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

Similar categories in Daniel C. Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."

-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

"I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics."

-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995"

-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

"Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections."

-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Similar categories in Richard P. Feynman's Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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Similar categories in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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Similar categories in Jared Diamond's The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle."

-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabu…"

-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Similar categories in Paul C.W. Davies's About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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" David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he too thinks doesn't pass. For Park, the passage of time is not so much an il…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

"Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective tim…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

"Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and men…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

"Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human "now." Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the "phi phe…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

Similar categories in Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

Similar categories in Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Similar categories in Carl Sagan's Cosmos book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Similar categories in Michio Kaku's Hyperspace book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"God abhors a naked singularity."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

Similar categories in Lee Smolin's The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers."

-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

"Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong."

-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

"On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge."

-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

"It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the generation above them had been slaughtered in World War…"

-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

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Similar categories in Sean Carroll's From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

Similar categories in Richard Panek's The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

Similar categories in Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

Similar categories in Albert Einstein's Relativity: The Special and the General Theory book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's A Briefer History of Time book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene

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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"طالما أن الكون له بداية سيكون في استطاعتنا افتراض أن له خالقًا. أما إذا كان الكون حقا مكتملا في حد ذاته، وليس له حد ولا حرف، فلن تكون له بداية ولا نهاية: فهو ببساطة موجود."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"There is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around…"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

Similar categories in Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos book and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene