Descriptions of the doom and gloom could go on for pages, but the point is, the end of the Permian was a very bad time to be alive. It was the biggest episode of mass death in the history of our planet. Somewhere around 90 percent of all
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“Our only consolation, as we feel our own strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves, fixing their eyes as they can on the great horizons of which we only had a glimpse,” pronounced Pasteur, with characteristic gallantry. Many”
― Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
― Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“We have not slain our enemy, the cancer cell, or figuratively torn the limbs from his body,” Varmus said. “In our adventures, we have only seen our monster more clearly and described his scales and fangs in new ways—ways that reveal a cancer cell to be, like Grendel, a distorted version of our normal selves.”
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
― The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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