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> [Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts. They cut open an animal and find a new species. Where did it come from? What effect does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/researchers-keep-identifying-new-species-but-they-have-no-idea-about/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

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## More by Carl Zimmer

> [“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/i-never-knew-any-man-who-had-once-tasted-the-sweetness-of/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/if-the-world-goes-crazy-for-a-lovely-fossil-that-s-fine-with-me-but/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/today-when-we-look-at-a-brain-we-see-an-intricate-network-of-billions/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [“The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/the-extra-clutter-adds-no-important-insight-instead-it-offers-more/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/evolution-has-led-to-some-populations-of-people-being-able-to-digest/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/medicine-allows-people-to-live-who-would-otherwise-die-so-antibiotics/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [“Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/two-hallmarks-of-homo-sapiens-are-decoration-and-self-identification/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/over-millions-of-years-the-viruses-in-our-genome-mutate-more-and-more/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [ “\[Writing to Lucretius, on Epicurus' belief that the soul was no different from the rest of the cosmos; made of atoms\] "Death is therefore… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/writing-to-lucretius-on-epicurus-belief-that-the-soul-was-no/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/we-may-be-sucking-in-all-sorts-of-viruses-and-we-really-don-t-know/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [“It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/it-may-be-hard-to-imagine-a-world-before-antibiotics-but-now-we-must/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/we-really-depend-on-viruses-for-our-complete-survival/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [“Based on the number of viruses she found in her samples, Proctor estimated that every liter of seawater contained up to one hundred billion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/based-on-the-number-of-viruses-she-found-in-her-samples-proctor/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts. They cut…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/researchers-keep-identifying-new-species-but-they-have-no-idea-about/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

> [One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-zimmer/one-of-the-big-challenges-now-is-to-figure-out-just-how-many-viruses/)

[Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-zimmer/)

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