“And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Nine out of ten humans killed? And you're not bothered." A look of mysterious thoughtfulness crossed his face. "A virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out," he said. A scream cut the air. It sounded nonhuman. He took his eyes off the water and looked around. "Hear that pheasant? That's what I like about the Bighorn… — Richard Preston Copy Share
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning around and around. He is going into shock. He leans over, head on his knees, and brings up an incredible quantity of blood from his stomach and spills it onto the floor with a gasping groan.… — Richard Preston Copy Share
“Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume… — Richard Preston Copy Share
“Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging.… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart” — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
