Matt Ridley
Title: Dr. Matthew White Ridley
Full Name: Matthew White Ridley
Birthdate: February 7, 1958
Birthplace: Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Occupation: Author, Businessman, and Journalist
Profile: Popular science writer with numerous works.
Website: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/
Number of Quotes: 2
Forget wars, religions, famines and poems for the moment. This is history's greatest theme: the
metastasis of exchange, specialization and the invention it has called forth, the
creation
of time.
The modern world is a history of ideas meeting, mixing, mating and mutating. And the reason that economic growth has
accelerated so in the past two centuries is down to the fact that ideas have been mixing more than ever before.