Emily Gamm

“disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the unintended results of things we are doing. They reflect the convergence of two forms of crisis on our planet. The first crisis is ecological, the second is medical.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”
― Robert Sapolsky

“By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic