Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 216 of Matt Ridley’s great 2020 book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom; it’s a quotation that opens Chapter 7 of Matt’s book and is attributed by him to J.B.S. Haldane:

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, that has not been hailed as an insult to some god.