298 Quotes by Matt Ridley

...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, is that it is a totally decentralised process...no cell need wait for instructions from authority; every cell can act on its own information and the signals it receives from its neighbours. We do not organise societies that way...Perhaps we should try.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

You inherit not your IQ but your ability to develop a high IQ under certain environmental circumstances. How does one parcel that one into nature and nurture? It is frankly impossible.

İki prion uzmanın yazdığı gibi, ''kişisel trajedilerin, etnik felaketlerin ve ekonomik yıkımların aslı, küçük bir molekülün haylazca yanlış katlanmasında aranabilir.

Bizler, miras aldığımız hücre intiharı mekanizmasına mahkumuz.

Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M.

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.

I can't imagine not coming back to New Orleans, ... We've lived here all of our lives, and we don't take it for granted. We don't know how long it's going to be before we have to make this choice. We're pretty convinced that we're not coming back anytime real soon.