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“To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

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“It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

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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.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

tags: 180, biology, nature

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“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. They were white cobras tangled among themselves, like the hair of Medusa. They were the face of nature herself, the obscene goddess revealed naked. This life form thing was breathtakingly beautiful. As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. He was lost in wonder and admiration, even though he knew that he was the prey. (149)”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

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