Richard Dawkins Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

  Richard Dawkins

  Creativity, Ideas, Hijacking

  "The Very Best of Richard Dawkins: Quotes from a Devout Atheist". Book by Gordon Fisher, 2014.

• There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Truth, Writing

• Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Creativity, Space, Procedures

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

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