Matt Ridley

British author and journalist · United Kingdom · Writers · Born 1958 · age 68

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2007Watson, Helen, Miles, and Audrey Davis PrizeAward2004Fellow of the Academy of Medical SciencesAward1999“I think knowledge is a blessing, not a curse. This is especially true in the case of genetic knowledge.”In their wordsForeward (p. 3)Read the whole statement

“If I read the genome out to you at the rate of one word per second for eight hours a day, it would take me a century.”In their wordsIntroduction (p. 7)Read the whole statement

“Human beings accumulate about one hundred mutations per generation.”In their wordsIntroduction (p. 10)Read the whole statement

“All rules have exceptions (including this one).”In their wordsIntroduction (p. 10)Read the whole statement

“That life is chemistry is true but boring, like saying that football is physics.”In their wordsChapter 1 “Life” (p. 15)Read the whole statement

“This means - and religious people might find this a useful argument - that there was only one creation, one single event when life was born.”In their wordsChapter 1 “Life” (p. 22)Read the whole statement

Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1958Born7 February 1958

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I think knowledge is a blessing, not a curse. This is especially true in the case of genetic knowledge.
1999, Foreward (p. 3), Own words
There are genes that have not changed much since the very first single-celled creatures populated the primeval ooze.
1999, Introduction (p. 5), Own words
If I read the genome out to you at the rate of one word per second for eight hours a day, it would take me a century.
1999, Introduction (p. 7), Own words

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Awards

Watson, Helen, Miles, and Audrey Davis Prize2007

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences2004

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1999

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Spouse Anya Hurlbert Their record only

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Sibling Rose Paterson Their record only

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About this person

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, commonly known as Matt Ridley, is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He writes on science, the environment and economics, and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper. Ridley was chairman of the UK bank Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007, during which period it experienced the first run on a British bank in 130 years. He resigned, and the bank was bailed out by the UK government; this led to its nationalisation.

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