Quotes About Matt Ridley

I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term 'meme' for a unit of cultural imitation.

Simultaneous discovery and invention mean that both patents and Nobel Prizes are fundamentally unfair things.

The moral of this story is that autocrats get too much credit for episodes of increased economic freedom,' wrote William Easterly.

Trying to replace the common law with a rationally designed law is, he jests, like trying to design a better rhinoceros in a laboratory.

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

It is strange to me that most people assume companies will be imperfect (as they are), but they assume that government agencies will be perfect, which they are not.