"The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for…" — Matt Ridley

"The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene"

— Matt Ridley

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26 Quotes by Matt Ridley

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Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words…
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions.…
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of…
You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to…
Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.
Trade is 10 times as old as farming.
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love…
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that…
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next…

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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