Top 70 Richard Preston Quotes (2024 Update)
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Richard Preston Quote: “It was as if his life’s work had slipped away unfinished before he had even been born. All he could find, at best, were a few remnants of a lost world.”

51. “It was as if his life’s work had slipped away unfinished before he had even been born. All he could find, at best, were a few remnants of a lost world.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “A temperate rain forest has a cool, moist, even climate, not too hot or cold. Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don’t like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.”

52. “A temperate rain forest has a cool, moist, even climate, not too hot or cold. Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don’t like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “The coast redwood tree is an evergreen conifer and a member of the cypress family. It’s scientific name is Sequoia sempervirens. No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree, and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.”

53. “The coast redwood tree is an evergreen conifer and a member of the cypress family. It’s scientific name is Sequoia sempervirens. No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree, and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “Over the years, Doctors Without Borders had become the shock cavalry of the human response to Ebola whenever it broke out.”

54. “Over the years, Doctors Without Borders had become the shock cavalry of the human response to Ebola whenever it broke out.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “You don’t want to cross that bright line, the ethical line, she told herself.”

55. “You don’t want to cross that bright line, the ethical line, she told herself.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “It was the lord of the strains, back from the dead.”

56. “It was the lord of the strains, back from the dead.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “Viruses are the undead of the living world, the zombies of deep time.”

57. “Viruses are the undead of the living world, the zombies of deep time.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness.”

58. “You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “The IRF is the most advanced Biosafety Level 4 research facility in the world, and it is a crown jewel of the National Institutes of Health.”

59. “The IRF is the most advanced Biosafety Level 4 research facility in the world, and it is a crown jewel of the National Institutes of Health.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “A question has to be asked: If a Level 4 emerging virus spread to a million people in North America, or in any continent, would hospitals be able to handle the patients and give them care? Would epidemiologists be able to trace and break the chains of transmission if a million people were infected?”

60. “A question has to be asked: If a Level 4 emerging virus spread to a million people in North America, or in any continent, would hospitals be able to handle the patients and give them care? Would epidemiologists be able to trace and break the chains of transmission if a million people were infected?”

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Richard Preston Quote: “When you are strong and healthy you do your part to help. And if you fade away, the next man will do his part.”

61. “When you are strong and healthy you do your part to help. And if you fade away, the next man will do his part.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “The red zones of Doctors Without Border were, in effect, giant plastic bags in which people infected with emergent Ebola were kept. This technique trapped the virus inside the plastic bag, where it would work its way through the human bodies in the bag, killing many of them – but the virus couldn’t escape from the bag. The red zones were artificial walls placed around hot spots of Ebola in order to break the growing chains of infection in the human species.”

62. “The red zones of Doctors Without Border were, in effect, giant plastic bags in which people infected with emergent Ebola were kept. This technique trapped the virus inside the plastic bag, where it would work its way through the human bodies in the bag, killing many of them – but the virus couldn’t escape from the bag. The red zones were artificial walls placed around hot spots of Ebola in order to break the growing chains of infection in the human species.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “Biomedical research is done by teams. The research is time-consuming and deeply expensive, and the results are often disappointing. With persistence, talent, and luck, and plenty of money, a biomedical research team can sometimes pull the veil off some small mystery of nature and the human body, and can find a better way to treat a disease.”

63. “Biomedical research is done by teams. The research is time-consuming and deeply expensive, and the results are often disappointing. With persistence, talent, and luck, and plenty of money, a biomedical research team can sometimes pull the veil off some small mystery of nature and the human body, and can find a better way to treat a disease.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “The only way to cut off an Ebola outbreak was to put people in quarantine camps, where they died like flies, as if they were in a fourteenth-century plague house. About the best doctors could do for Ebola patients was to give them water and hope for the best.”

64. “The only way to cut off an Ebola outbreak was to put people in quarantine camps, where they died like flies, as if they were in a fourteenth-century plague house. About the best doctors could do for Ebola patients was to give them water and hope for the best.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “He could now see the problem only too clearly: The local people didn’t believe that Ebola was real. The virus was out there, it was spreading, and the local people would become violent if the team tried to find it. It was very clear to him – after nearly being killed in a village – that his nation was heading for a disaster. All he could do, personally, was just keep working and try to keep his family safe.”

65. “He could now see the problem only too clearly: The local people didn’t believe that Ebola was real. The virus was out there, it was spreading, and the local people would become violent if the team tried to find it. It was very clear to him – after nearly being killed in a village – that his nation was heading for a disaster. All he could do, personally, was just keep working and try to keep his family safe.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “As for the trees themselves, water that flows into a giant redwood through its roots takes two weeks or longer to reach the top of the tree, moving slowly upward through the tree’s sapwood.”

66. “As for the trees themselves, water that flows into a giant redwood through its roots takes two weeks or longer to reach the top of the tree, moving slowly upward through the tree’s sapwood.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “When everybody is in tears, he thought, somebody has to see to what is happening. What are the things that need to be done?”

67. “When everybody is in tears, he thought, somebody has to see to what is happening. What are the things that need to be done?”

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Richard Preston Quote: “It is fair to say, however, that nature often does whatever is necessary in order to make the most number of experts wrong.”

68. “It is fair to say, however, that nature often does whatever is necessary in order to make the most number of experts wrong.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “And still there was no vaccine or treatment for any filovirus, including Ebola. Nor was there a vaccine or medical countermeasure against other viruses that seemed ready for a breakthrough into the human species: Sars, Mers, Nipah.”

69. “And still there was no vaccine or treatment for any filovirus, including Ebola. Nor was there a vaccine or medical countermeasure against other viruses that seemed ready for a breakthrough into the human species: Sars, Mers, Nipah.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “When she started working at USAMRIID, Hensley had no knowledge of space suits and no interest in working in a hot zone; she planned to do research on a mild virus that causes common colds, especially in children. This kind of cold virus infects many kinds of wild animals. Hensley thought that one of the wild cold viruses could jump out of an animal into a person somewhere on earth and start a global outbreak of a fatal, emerging cold.”

70. “When she started working at USAMRIID, Hensley had no knowledge of space suits and no interest in working in a hot zone; she planned to do research on a mild virus that causes common colds, especially in children. This kind of cold virus infects many kinds of wild animals. Hensley thought that one of the wild cold viruses could jump out of an animal into a person somewhere on earth and start a global outbreak of a fatal, emerging cold.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood.”

71. “They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “Ebola virus moves from one person to the next by following the deepest and most personal ties of love, care, and duty that join people to one another and most clearly define us as human.”

72. “Ebola virus moves from one person to the next by following the deepest and most personal ties of love, care, and duty that join people to one another and most clearly define us as human.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “This is how all outbreaks end,” Armand Sprecher, the Doctors’ official in Brussels, said. “It’s always a change in behavior. Ebola outbreaks end when people decide they’re going to end.” In.”

73. “This is how all outbreaks end,” Armand Sprecher, the Doctors’ official in Brussels, said. “It’s always a change in behavior. Ebola outbreaks end when people decide they’re going to end.” In.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “Doctors Without Borders adheres to an unyielding ethical principle known as “distributive justice.” The principle asserts that all human beings deserve equal access to the best available medical care. Under the principle of distributive justice, every person is entitled to the same care, whether they are rich or poor, powerful or weak. The principle requires that medical resources must be spread out equitably among all patients according to their needs.”

74. “Doctors Without Borders adheres to an unyielding ethical principle known as “distributive justice.” The principle asserts that all human beings deserve equal access to the best available medical care. Under the principle of distributive justice, every person is entitled to the same care, whether they are rich or poor, powerful or weak. The principle requires that medical resources must be spread out equitably among all patients according to their needs.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “Yet who knows whether you have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this.”

75. “Yet who knows whether you have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “A ninety-minute cure for Ebola? A hundred percent efficacy rate, even when the animals were hours from death? Results like this simply don’t happen in pharmaceutical research. It seemed impossible.”

76. “A ninety-minute cure for Ebola? A hundred percent efficacy rate, even when the animals were hours from death? Results like this simply don’t happen in pharmaceutical research. It seemed impossible.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “The filoviruses are a family of viruses that all look alike, and most of them are extremely lethal.”

77. “The filoviruses are a family of viruses that all look alike, and most of them are extremely lethal.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “What I propose to look at is a global outbreak that might be termed a Level 4 event worldwide outbreak of a Biosafety Level 4 emerging virus that travels in the air from person to person, and is vaccineless and untreatable with modern medicine.”

78. “What I propose to look at is a global outbreak that might be termed a Level 4 event worldwide outbreak of a Biosafety Level 4 emerging virus that travels in the air from person to person, and is vaccineless and untreatable with modern medicine.”

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Richard Preston Quote: “Viruses more powerful and dangerous than Ebola were going to emerge in the future, and medical people were going to have to deal with them. “If we don’t help, what message are we sending our children?” Hensley would later say. “Our children are going to inherit these problems, and people are dying. Part of the responsibility of a parent is to teach our children how to be responsible. We have to set the example for our staff, our families, and the patients in Africa.”

79. “Viruses more powerful and dangerous than Ebola were going to emerge in the future, and medical people were going to have to deal with them. “If we don’t help, what message are we sending our children?” Hensley would later say. “Our children are going to inherit these problems, and people are dying. Part of the responsibility of a parent is to teach our children how to be responsible. We have to set the example for our staff, our families, and the patients in Africa.”

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