The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

by John M. Barry

The two most important questions in science are “What can I know?” and “How can I know it?”

Institutions are a strange mix of the mass and the individual. They abstract. They behave according to a set of rules that substitute both for individual judgments and for the emotional responses that occur whenever individuals interact.

Emotion is not the absence of reason; emotion corrupts reason.