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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8af0344 | Karl Popper - that any theory that is incapable of falsification cannot be considered scientific. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 09a4b2b | Imports are Christmas morning; exports are January's MasterCard bill. P.J. O'ROURKE | Matt Ridley | ||
| 29c555c | fail to recognize that the best plan is often not to have one. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 5e9e3e0 | the beauty of commerce is that when it works it rewards people for solving other people's problems. It is 'best understood as an evolutionary system, constantly creating and trying out new solutions to problems in a similar way to how evolution works in nature. Some solutions are "fitter" than others. The fittest survive and propagate. The unfit die." | Matt Ridley | ||
| 68db140 | George Washington said that 'Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. Government is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master. | Matt Ridley | ||
| cc8c9f2 | firms are temporary aggregations of people to help them do their producing in such a way as to help others do their consuming. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 3fe0cdd | You inherit not your IQ but your ability to develop a high IQ under certain environmental circumstances. How does one parcel that one into nature and nurture? It is frankly impossible. | science | Matt Ridley | |
| 2f37483 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain and the United States made huge contributions to science with negligible public funding, while Germany and France, with hefty public funding, achieved no greater results either in science or in economics. 'The industrialised nations whose governments invested least in science did best economically,' says Kealey, 'and they didn't do so badly in science either. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 72d8ad8 | In 2003, the OECD published a paper on 'sources of growth in OECD countries' between 1971 and 1998, finding to its explicit surprise that whereas privately funded research and development stimulated economic growth, publicly funded research had no economic impact whatsoever. None. This earthshaking result has never been challenged or debunked. Yet it is so inconvenient to the argument that science needs public funding that it is ignored. | Matt Ridley | ||
| dc24165 | Paradoxically, depathologising people's fundamental inclinations and giving group members permission to be the way they are seemed to constitute the best insurance that their self-esteem and interpersonal effectiveness would improve. | Matt Ridley | ||
| d13e070 | Brink Lindsey has pointed out. 'Despite the obvious successes of unplanned markets, despite the spectacular rise of the Internet's decentralized order, and despite the well-publicized new science of "complexity" and its study of self-organizing systems, it is still widely assumed that the only alternative to central authority is chaos." | Matt Ridley | ||
| 52ea3dc | California was especially enthusiastic about eugenics. By 1933 it had forcibly sterilised more people than all other states combined. So when the Third International Congress of Eugenics gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1932 under the presidency of Charles Davenport, and Davenport asked, 'Can we by eugenical studies point the way to produce the superman and the superstate?', it was to California that the sup.. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 6455784 | But until the genetic code was cracked in the 1960s, we did not know what we now know: that all life is one; seaweed is your distant cousin and anthrax one of your advanced relatives. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 500a287 | Nancy Wexler fears that science is now in the position of Tiresias, the blind seer of Thebes. | Matt Ridley | ||
| df036f2 | Richard Dawkins that 'money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism' - | Matt Ridley | ||
| 42f724d | It reminds us that the genome, great book that it is, may give us the bleakest kind of self-knowledge: the knowledge of our destiny, not the kind of knowledge that you can do something about, but the curse of Tiresias. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 6ed086c | We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth that still fills me with astonishment. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene | Matt Ridley | ||
| d9c7fcf | 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. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 1e482f5 | It is a remarkable fact that people who have been preparing for an important exam, and have shown the symptoms of stress, are more likely to catch colds and other infections, because one of the effects of Cortisol is to reduce the I50 GENOME activity, number and lifetime of lymphocytes - white blood cells. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 7a106f2 | 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 | ||
| b9470a2 | The phenomena we refer to as intelligence may be a byproduct of intergenomic conflict between genes mediating offense and defense in the context of language', write Rice and Holland. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 024453d | A Californian firm called Morning Star Tomatoes has been experimenting with 'self-management' for two decades. The result is that Morning Star is the largest processor of tomatoes in the world, handling 40 per cent of California's processed tomato crop. | Matt Ridley | ||
| cf02768 | Az, hogy ez a konyv kifejezetten egy faj helyzetevel foglalkozik - az emberi fajeval -, semmit nem jelent e faj fontossagat tekintve. Persze az ember valoban kulonleges. A ket fule kozott a bolygo legbonyolultabb biologiai gepezetet hordozza. A komlexitas azonban nem minden, es nem az evolucio celja. Ezen a bolygon minden faj egyedulallo. A paratlansag itt tulkinalatban levo arucikk. | evolúció-genes gének species | Matt Ridley | |
| 87f5a62 | Depending on whose estimate you choose, and how you correct for inflation, the average person alive in the world today earns in a year between ten and twenty times as much money, in real terms, as the average person earned in 1800. Or rather, he or she can afford ten or twenty times as many goods or services. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 51aaf4d | The ten most violent countries in the world in 2014 - Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and North Korea - are all among the least capitalist. The ten most peaceful - Iceland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, Japan, Belgium and Norway - are all firmly capitalist. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 73465b3 | One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often - on average about ninety-seven | Matt Ridley | ||
| 0b341ff | One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often - on average about ninety-seven times more often - than women have killed women. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 74bd325 | Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong. The history of human science is not encouraging. Galton's eugenics, Freud's unconscious, Durkheim's sociology, Mead's culture-driven anthropology, Skinner's behaviorism, Piaget's early learning, and Wilson's sociobiology all appear in retrospect to be riddled with errors and false perspectives. No doubt the Red Queen's approach is just another chapter in this marred tale. No doubt its politici.. | science sex-differences | Matt Ridley | |
| 1e362d9 | Letting good evolve, while doing bad, has been the dominant theme of history. That is why the news is full of only bad things being done, but we find when they are over that great good has happened unheralded. Good things are gradual; bad things are sudden. Above all, good things evolve. | Matt Ridley | ||
| de8d7ae | As James Watson has put it, 'We talk about gene therapy as if it can change someone's fate, but you can also change someone's fate if you pay off their credit card. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 60a4dd1 | Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim | creativity freud psychology shakespeare sociology | Matt Ridley | |
| 1aee8d6 | book is a piece of digital information, written in linear, one-dimensional and one-directional form and defined by a code that transliterates a small alphabet of signs into a large lexicon of meanings through the order of their groupings. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 86ebd54 | ymknn lbd,mthl,bsw'l ybdw bsyT:m hw ltrykh? - ltrykh 'kdhyb lmntSryn. - rbm ttdhkr kdhlk 'nh 'whm lmhzwmyn 'yD. - ltrykh fTyr@ bSl Gyr mTbwkh,l'nh mkrr,mthyr lltjshw'.lqd r'ynh mr@ tlw l'khr~ 'thn drstn hdh l`m mthl Tbqt lbSl.lHky@ lqdym@ nfsh,lt'rjH byn lkhyn@ wlthwr@ nfsh,lHrb wlslm,lthrw@ wlfqr...lkh. - ltrykh hw dhk lyqyn lntj `n ltq khll ldhkr@ bnqS ltwthyq. | Julian Barnes | ||
| ce5c521 | You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother----you get the picture----reaming their----you get the rest of the picture. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 31eb3f0 | If you want to see a truly long sentence, pick up a copy of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, which reportedly contains a 4,391 word sentence. And when you're finished with that one, Jonathan Coe's book The Rotters Club contains a sentence made up of 13,955 words. | Jenny Baranick | ||
| f410cbf |
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Jonathan Coe | ||
| 5b2ab82 | If there was one kind of hat Terry despised above all others, it was the baseball cap. There was nothing wrong with children wearing it, of course, but whenever he saw it on the head of an adult it seemed to symbolize everything that he most hated about America, even more potently than the figure of Mickey Mouse or the latest Coke adverts or the hordes of giant yellow 'M's which were even now beginning to advance across Britain like an unch.. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 0a13e76 | To kolpo einai na kaneis panta skandalode pragmata. Den uparkhei logos na pernas mia skandalode nomothesia kai meta na dineis stous allous to khrono na proetoimastoun skhetika. Prepei na parembaineis amesos kai na ten epikalupteis me kati akoma kheirotero, protou e koine gnome prolabei na katalabei to kako pou te breke. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| b786bfc | Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissita del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffermarmi sulla carnagione leggermente screziata e sui suoi folti capelli ramati. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| ba2ba8f | Emu vdrug prishlo v golovu, chto on dvizhetsia po zhizni kak vo sne i kogda-nibud' (let etak cherez tridtsat') on prosnetsia lish' zatem, chtoby uvidet': ego vremia na etoi zemle podoshlo k kontsu, a on ne uspel urazumet' i maloi toliki proiskhodiashchego. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| d119340 | Quello che in letteratura la gente chiama ironia, di solito nella vita vera si chiama dolore, incomprensione e disgrazia [...]. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 5498b71 | In effetti a questo stadio della sua esistenza, Maria non era contraria per principio al bacio o allo strofinamento occasionale, o all'occasionale orgasmo. Ma piu il tempo passava e piu Maria cominciava a vedere le brame sessuali della razza umana, incluse le proprie, come il sintomo di una bramosia ben piu grande, di una solitudine terribile, di un'urgenza di dimenticare se stessi che, cosi almeno si diceva in giro, poteva essere attenuata.. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 3efcdd0 | Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?' 'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct. | Jonathan Coe | ||
| 8db66d0 | Noi diciamo sempre "Andiamo a bere qualcosa?" come se l'atto del bere fosse il fine principale dell'appuntamento e la compagnia dell'altro un fattore meramente incidentale, tanto siamo timorosi di ammettere il nostro bisogno del prossimo. [...] Noi diciamo sempre "Vuoi salire a prendere un caffe?" come se fosse meno spaventoso riconoscere di essere dipendenti dalle bevande blandamente stimolanti piuttosto che ammettere di essere del tutto d.. | Jonathan Coe |