“Human being are ultimately nothing but carriers - passageways - for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation." -”

“Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.”

“Whatever the one generation may learn from the other, that which is genuinely human no generation learns from the foregoing...Thus no generation has learned from another to love, no generation begins at any other point than at the beginning, no generation has a shorter task assigned to it than had the previous generation.”

“I’m merely pointing out that the gene that controls intelligence skipped a generation in the Van Holtz household.”

“Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?”

“Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.”