"When people asked him why he didn't work……" — Richard Preston
"When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying."
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16 Quotes by Richard Preston
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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…
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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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