Quote by Matt Ridley Download Open image ““A própria palavra “sedução” implica mentira e manipulação.”” — Matt Ridley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“E, todavia como é difícil explicar-me! Há no homem o dom perverso da banalização. Estamos condenados a pensar com palavras, a sentir com palavras,… — Vergílio Ferreira Copy Share Image
“Não há sentido mais amplo do que o que realiza a personalidade, consumando a liberdade. Tudo o que eu escrevo se destina a interessar… — Agustina Bessa-Luís Copy Share Image
“A origem do conhecimento está nas perguntas. Perguntar e pensar são processos inseparáveis.” — António Estanqueiro Copy Share Image
“A determinação e o destino são irmãos, e ambos repousam no mesmo coração.” — Halldór Kiljan Laxness Copy Share Image
“As pinturas, e muito mais tarde, os textos serviram de marcos e de pausas para reflexão, alertas, divertimento e prazer. Ajudaram a clarificar o… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
“Só se pertence a um agrupamento político por um movimento de simpatia, e essa simpatia é sempre pessoal, e a pessoalidade é a afinidade… — Mário Saa Copy Share Image
“(…) as meias palavras existem para dizer o que as inteiras não podem.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“A Reflexão é o anjo exterminador da espontaneidade… Se fosse verdade que a reflexão devesse controlar a inclinação amorosa, nunca haveria casamento.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If you attend a meeting of evolutionary biologists somewhere in America, you might be lucky and spot a tall, gray-whiskered, smiling man bearing a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Merchants and craftsmen make prosperity; chiefs, priests and thieves fritter it away.” — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition continues sometimes just six times, sometimes… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are also descended… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
