Quotes from Matt Ridley (Author)

Dare to be an optimist.

There is no permanent ideal of disease resistance, merely the shifting sands of impermanent obsolescence.

Science is like a hungry furnace that must feed from the the forest of ignorance that surrounds us.

Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty

The story of a briefly abundant hairless primate originating in Africa is but a footnote in the history of life, but in the history of the hairless primate it is central.

Dare to be an optimist.