What is miraculous is that in modern society you can trust … - Matt Ridley

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What is miraculous is that in modern society you can trust and be trusted by a shopkeeper you do not know.

Matt Ridley

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Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, DL, FRSL, FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), usually known as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist who has written several popular science books. He is also a businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

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Alternative Names: Matthew Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley • Hon. Matthew White Ridley • Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley • Dr M W Ridley • Matthew White Ridley

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Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both.

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In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages did a century ago.

What is miraculous is that in modern society you can trust and be trusted by a shopkeeper you do not know. - Matt Ridley

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