If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
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… - Richard Preston
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…
- Richard Preston
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. - Richard Preston
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
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. - Richard Preston
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.
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… - Richard Preston
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…
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. - Richard Preston
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… - Richard Preston
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…
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… - Richard Preston
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…
When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying. - Richard Preston
When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax. - Richard Preston
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
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