Modern medicine Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carl Zimmer

“The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.”

— Carl Zimmer

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

— 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…

— Carl Zimmer

“Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

— 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…

— Carl Zimmer