"Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that."

-- Charles Jencks

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“Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.”
“In every situation, no matter what first appears. Find the good that is always there, and change that fear to cheer.”
“When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.”
“When we seek to complete rather than compete, it's so much easier to cheer each other on.”
“Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.”
“My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.”

Source : "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?”

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