Quotes by : Matt Ridley

The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plate.....

...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, is....

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

Imagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter contains....

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

There is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms....

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

In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the....

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior....

The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition....