The Darwin Variant Quotes

“Like what you told us about Animal Farm,” Katie piped up. “How the handwriting on the barn wall said ‘All animals are equal—’” “‘But some animals are more equal than others,’” Lilly quoted flatly while still reading her Spinoza. “George Orwell, 1945, chapter ten.”
― Kenneth C. Johnson, The Darwin Variant

“But some animals are more equal than others,’” Lilly quoted flatly while still reading her Spinoza. “George Orwell, 1945, chapter ten.”
― Kenneth C. Johnson, The Darwin Variant

“Mitchell could also quote poetically from T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which gave insights into Lawrence’s brilliance at using the prejudices of one Arabian tribe against another or bending them to unify.”
― Kenneth C. Johnson, The Darwin Variant

“Transmitted orally,” I translated for Eric and Katie. “That narrows the construct. It also explains how it was likely spread to farm animals through droppings from birds who’d eaten the infected fruit. Those crows that pecked at the migrant child could have gotten it directly into his blood. Get a PCR going, Hutch.” I glanced at our new friends. “That’s polymerase chain reaction. It creates more samples of the virus so we can study it in various growth media. And Hutch, do it in the level four lab. But don’t let Lauren get in there with you.”
― Kenneth C. Johnson, The Darwin Variant

“I know, I know.” He shook his head, looked away, trying to frame it. “But I always feel like I’m a teenager in a roomful of grown-ups. I’m positive that at any moment they’re all gonna realize I’m way out of my depth, nowhere close to their levels of competence—particularly yours and—”
― Kenneth C. Johnson, The Darwin Variant

“Lewis makes a disturbing case for how insidious it can be. Starts with a low groundswell and creeps up on a whole society until all of a sudden you find yourself living in an entirely different country.” She held up my pie,”
― Kenneth C. Johnson, The Darwin Variant

“I loved his Arrowsmith, about doctors like us, but what was It Can’t Happen Here?” “He wrote it in 1935,” she said, “about a wave of autocratic demagoguery and Fascism suddenly rising up in the United States, like what was happening in Germany and Italy then.”
― Kenneth C. Johnson, The Darwin Variant