David Quammen Quotes & Sayings
13 most famous David Quammen quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.”
“Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.”
“I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.”
“I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.”
“I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.”
“You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.”
“I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I go off on a trip, I take a scissors, I pull out about four of these things, and I cut off the bottom inch and a half so this thing is only that long. You know why? Because it fits in a zip lock bag if I do that.”
“Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.”
“One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.”
“The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.”
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