Richard Preston Quotes

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• Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
• The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
• Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder…
• You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.
• Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,…
• The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
• The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the…
• If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
• What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human…
• During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move…
• Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not…
• It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
• He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
• In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a…
• When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.
• To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

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