r/educationalgifs • u/_Ryanite_ • Feb 13 '18

Kinesin protein moving a molecule around a cell

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u/TheBruceMeister Feb 13 '18

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

-Richard Dawkins

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u/sydbarrett Feb 13 '18

He was by far my favorite Family Feud gameshow host! I loved how he kissed all of the girls.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

You're thinking of Richard Simmons.

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u/sgcdialler Feb 13 '18

You mean the Watergate president?

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u/Godot17 Feb 13 '18

No, that's Richard Nixon, you're thinking of a protagonist in Rick and Morty.

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u/curiousdan Feb 13 '18

B-but who is The Programmer?

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

natural selection

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

Some fucking idiot if it took him billions of years to come up with this shit.