Matt Ridley Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)
Trying to replace the common law with a rationally designed law is, he jests, like trying to design a better rhinoceros in a laboratory.
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
Male animals have a finite sum of energy that they can spend on testosterone or immunity to disease, but not both at the same time.
Political decisions are by definition monopolistic, disenfranchising and despotically majoritarian; markets are good at supplying minority needs.
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.
Think of this: never before this generation has the average person been able to afford to have somebody else prepare his meals. You
The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.
Life is a slippery thing to define, but it consists of two very different skills: the ability to replicate, and the ability to create order.
Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.
These were people collaborating because they wanted to, not because they were paid to, and with little or no intellectual property in their ideas.
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.
The influence upon our intelligence of events that happened in the womb is three times as great as anything our parents did to us after our birth.
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race
It is my proposition that the human race has become a collective problem-solving machine and it solves problems by changing its ways. It
People are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential - the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.
In 1900, the average American spent $76 of every $100 on food, clothing and shelter. Today he spends $37.
Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.