Matt Ridley Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Clever, Agency

• The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Ignorance, Views

• Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Race, Lines

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