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Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley is a British journalist and businessman. Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature , Genome , The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves and The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge . He publishes a blog, and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper.

Ridley is a libertarian, and a staunch supporter of Brexit. Since 2013, he has been a Conservative hereditary peer, with a seat in the House of Lords.Ridley was chairman of the UK bank Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007, during which period Northern Rock experienced the first run on a British bank in 150 years. Ridley resigned and the bank was bailed out by the UK government leading to the nationalisation of Northern Rock. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. February 1958   •   Other names 马特·里德利, 馬特·里德利
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Matt Ridley Quotes

“Human beings accumulate about one hundred mutations per generation.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Introduction (p. 10)
Genome (1999)

“Almost everything in the body, from hair to hormones, is either made of proteins or made by them.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Introduction (p. 9)
Genome (1999)

“I think knowledge is a blessing, not a curse. This is especially true in the case of genetic knowledge.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Foreward (p. 3)
Genome (1999)

Knowledge , Thinking

“At its birth eugenics was not a politicised science; it was a science-ised political creed.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 21 “Eugenics” (p. 288)

Science , Birth

“The genome is littered, one might almost say clogged, with the equivalent of computer viruses, selfish, parasitic stretches of letters which exist for the pure and simple reason that they are good at getting themselves duplicated. We are full of digital chain letters and warnings about marmalade.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 8 “Self-Interest” (p. 127)

Selfishness

“Sexual relations are driven not by what is good, in evolutionary terms, for men or for women, but for their chromosomes. The ability to seduce a woman was good for Y chromosomes in the past; the ability to resist seduction by a man was good for X chromosomes in the past.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter X and Y “Conflict” (p. 115)

Past , Women , Men