Matt Ridley





Matt Ridley

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The Hon. Matthew White Ridley (born 7 February 1958, in Northumberland) is an English science writer, businessman and aristocrat. Ridley was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he received a doctorate in zoology before commencing a career in journalism. Ridley worked as the science editor of The Economist from 1984 to 1987 and was then its Washington correspondent from 1987 to 1989 and American editor from 1990 to 1992.


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“A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.”
Matt Ridley, Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

“Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.”
Matt Ridley, Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

“In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.”
Matt Ridley, Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

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