"Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous." — Richard Preston
"Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous."
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Richard Preston
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16 Quotes by Richard Preston
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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…
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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…
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of…
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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…
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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…
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During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with…
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Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are…
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It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into…
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He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
— Aristotle
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
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