"Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA."

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Source : Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

#Dna Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.”
“You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.”
“As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.”
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
“I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.”
“Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.”
“The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.”
“This war on terror is bogus.”

Source : "This war on terrorism is bogus" by Michael Meacher, www.theguardian.com. September 06, 2003.

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