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13 quotes by Matt Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, DL, FRSL, FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist who has written several popular science books. He is also a businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books including The Red Queen (1994), Genome (1999) and The Rational...
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Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

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I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I... →

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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... →

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I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will.... →

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It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the... →

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Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to... →

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I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment.... →

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Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

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I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

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I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

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I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.

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I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only... →

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If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years... →

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