Richard Preston quotes

AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest. (Richard Preston)
Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.
Richard Preston
In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.
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The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
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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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It turns out, from what I hear, that roasted fruit bats are delicious.
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The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America.
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I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.
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Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.
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Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.
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I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow. (Richard Preston)
I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature.
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To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
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He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
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