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Richard Preston Quotes

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

"The Mountains of Pi" by Richard Preston, www.newyorker.com. March 02, 1992.

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.

Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.56, Random House

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

Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.98, Random House

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

"The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak". Book by Richard Preston, December 31, 2012.

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

Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.123, Random House