Stone age Quote by Matt Ridley Download Open image ““[...] the Stone Age did not come to an end for lack of stone.”” — Matt Ridley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stone age
“The Stone Age didn’t end because people ran out of stones. It ended because people kept learning and improving” — JOHN C MAXWELL Copy Share Image
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
“The stone had been rolled away... That fact alone demands a response.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“Ten years was not enough. Stone should not crumble after just a decade of neglect. The filth should not have piled up so quickly—not… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We didn't leave the Stone Age because we ran out of rocks. We found a better way of doing things. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani Copy Share Image
“Stone seems to bring into play an opposite quality of time. Stone, unlike man-made materials, is a primary material; therefore, it seems to existed… — Richard Serra 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
“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It’s a puzzle why we binge on the sweetest and greasiest food we can find, until we consider the eating habits of our forager… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“Claire was just coming down the stairs, humming and thinking about how nice it was to have things getting back to normal, and how… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
It's tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn't live anywhere near as long as we're… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani Copy Share Image
I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Stone Age humans from wild animals being used for war / battle that continues to this day / but goals have changed, today the… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image