"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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Source : "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story". Book by Richard Preston, www.dailymaverick.co.za. 1999.

Richard Preston

#Life Quotes #Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?”
“Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...”

Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
“I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.”
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
“The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.”
“You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way, with that madness in the eyes of man that is wisdom in the eyes of God. Take risks, search and search again, search everywhere, in every way, do not let a single opportunity or chance that life offers pass you by, and do not be petty and mean, trying to drive a hard bargain.”
“As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. Itâ€™s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is â€œdescended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.â€ Willingness is the single most important test.”
“You are God's dream with skin on”

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