The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

by Matt Ridley

The truth is, almost all discoveries and inventions occur to different people simultaneously, and result in furious disputes between rivals who accuse each other of intellectual theft.

Each technology is necessary for the next technology.

‘trial and error is a tremendously powerful process for solving problems in a complex world, while expert leadership is not’.

Karl Popper – that any theory that is incapable of falsification cannot be considered scientific.