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Richard Preston Inspirational Quotes (8)

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If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
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Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
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What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.
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The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.
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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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He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
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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 AIDS ten years to accomplish.
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