Richard Preston Quotes

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

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.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.