298 Quotes by Matt Ridley

Most aid is delivered by governments to governments.

Human beings innovate by combining and recombining ideas, and the larger and denser the network, the more innovation occurs. Once again, notice that this is not policy.

Few debates in the history of science have been conducted with such stupidity as the one about intelligence.

So plants can withstand almost any loss, and regenerate easily. They are utterly decentralised.

If God is not needed for morality, and if language is a spontaneous system, then perhaps the king, the pope and the official are not quite as vital to the functioning of an orderly society as they pretend?

Because bodies do not replicate themselves but are grown, whereas genes do replicate themselves, it inevitably follows that the body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene, rather than vice versa.

Market failure is a favourite phrase; government failure is not.

Life adapted to the laws of physics, not vice versa.

All that determinists are asking you to accept is that there cannot be effect without cause.