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