If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi..

Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the sma….

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..

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax..

During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through….

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….

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 l….

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty..

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it..

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying..

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world..

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….

Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder and rand….

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite..

Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they ….

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous..