About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

- Nathan Wolfe

We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched eve…

- Nathan Wolfe

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to …

- Nathan Wolfe

The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of the…

- Nathan Wolfe

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have co…

- Nathan Wolfe

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

- Nathan Wolfe

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

- Nathan Wolfe

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

- Nathan Wolfe

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the…

- Nathan Wolfe