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“The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast—above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill—has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“And hopefully nothing will happen.” But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It’s just a question of what and when.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic