Quotes by Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good […] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland’s ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on.

Growing

Ice

Increase

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him – the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

Bored

Discovery

Ignorance

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Animal

Collectives

Way

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

Agency

Clever

Running

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

Evolution

Men

Way

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

Forever

Genetics

States

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Body

Brain

Events

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Ends

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Dna

Four

Recipes

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.

Differences

Sex

Writing

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Evolution

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Four

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Genetics

Giving Up

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Quotes by Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good […] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland’s ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him – the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

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

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

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

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.

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