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> [To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/to-mess-around-with-ebola-is-an-easy-way-to-die-better-to-work-with/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

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## More by Richard Preston

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/nine-out-of-ten-humans-killed-and-you-re-not-bothered-a-look-of/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/to-mess-around-with-ebola-is-an-easy-way-to-die-better-to-work-with/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/a-good-businessman-is-hard-to-bruise-and-quick-to-heal/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/the-best-way-to-know-what-s-in-the-soup-is-to-boil-yourself-in-it/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/he-becomes-dizzy-and-utterly-weak-and-his-spine-goes-limp-and/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/humans-in-space-suits-make-monkeys-nervous/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/ebola-zaire-attacks-every-organ-and-tissue-in-the-human-body-except/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/jahrling-sat-down-at-his-desk-and-sighed-there-was-a-landfill-of/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/we-could-eradicate-smallpox-from-nature-but-we-could-not-uproot-the/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/c-j-had-spoken-longingly-of-finding-the-african-termite-queen-the/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/during-climbs-into-taller-trees-i-was-occasionally-able-to-look-down/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/the-ludolphian-number-is-fixed-in-eternity-not-a-digit-out-of-place/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/your-mouth-bleeds-and-you-bleed-around-your-teeth-and-you-may-have/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [“One room in the hospital had not been cleaned up. No one, not even the nuns, had had the courage to enter the obstetric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/one-room-in-the-hospital-had-not-been-cleaned-up-no-one-not-even-the/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

> [It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-preston/it-showed-a-kind-of-obscenity-you-see-only-in-nature-an-obscenity-so/)

[Richard Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-preston/)

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