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Richard Preston has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
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The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
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Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,…
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You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten…
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with…
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The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
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The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence…
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If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
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What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory…
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During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight…
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Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even…
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It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with…
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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully…
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In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are…
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its…
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If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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