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In America, roughly 15 per cent of jobs are destroyed every year; and roughly 15 per cent created.
— Matt Ridley
A four-letter alphabet called DNA.
— Matt Ridley
As I mentioned earlier, the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order.
— Matt Ridley
Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both.
— Matt Ridley
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
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The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.
— Matt Ridley
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.
— Matt Ridley
The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene
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The mind drives the body, which drives the genome.
— Matt Ridley
Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible.
— Matt Ridley
Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men.
— Matt Ridley
Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.
— Matt Ridley
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race
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I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.
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Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.
— Matt Ridley
People are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential - the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.
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In 1900, the average American spent $76 of every $100 on food, clothing and shelter. Today he spends $37.
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Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.
— Matt Ridley
Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
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the complexity of society does not imply a planner.
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Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
— Matt Ridley
Trade is 10 times as old as farming.
— Matt Ridley
simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.
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