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Matt Ridley Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative Picture Quote #1

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race Picture Quote #1

The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better Picture Quote #1

Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men Picture Quote #1

I’m perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don’t pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I’m actually being quite greedy, because what I’m doing is essentially saying, ‘I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.’ Picture Quote #1

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I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked Picture Quote #1

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep Picture Quote #1

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal Picture Quote #1

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him Picture Quote #1

Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate Picture Quote #1

I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it Picture Quote #1

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Trade is 10 times as old as farming Picture Quote #1

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut Picture Quote #1

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene Picture Quote #1

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future Picture Quote #1

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal Picture Quote #1

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They’re nostalgic for a simpler, slower time Picture Quote #1

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Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will Picture Quote #1

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience Picture Quote #1

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business Picture Quote #1

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years Picture Quote #1

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up Picture Quote #1

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex Picture Quote #1

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It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it Picture Quote #1

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature Picture Quote #1

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom Picture Quote #1

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view Picture Quote #1

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever Picture Quote #1

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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. (Matt Ridley Quotes) Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative (Matt Ridley Quotes) Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race (Matt Ridley Quotes) The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better (Matt Ridley Quotes) Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men (Matt Ridley Quotes) I’m perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don’t pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I’m actually being quite greedy, because what I’m doing is essentially saying, ‘I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.’ (Matt Ridley Quotes) I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked. (Matt Ridley Quotes) I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep (Matt Ridley Quotes) I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal. (Matt Ridley Quotes) Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him. (Matt Ridley Quotes) Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate. (Matt Ridley Quotes) I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it. (Matt Ridley Quotes) Trade is 10 times as old as farming (Matt Ridley Quotes) Uniqueness is the commodity of glut (Matt Ridley Quotes) The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene (Matt Ridley Quotes) Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future (Matt Ridley Quotes) At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal (Matt Ridley Quotes) Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They’re nostalgic for a simpler, slower time (Matt Ridley Quotes) Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will (Matt Ridley Quotes) How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience (Matt Ridley Quotes) We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business (Matt Ridley Quotes) The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years (Matt Ridley Quotes) Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up (Matt Ridley Quotes) You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex (Matt Ridley Quotes) It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it (Matt Ridley Quotes) Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature (Matt Ridley Quotes) The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom (Matt Ridley Quotes) The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view (Matt Ridley Quotes) Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever (Matt Ridley Quotes)