Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder and randomness. Except in the case of viruses. They can turn off and go dead. Then, if they come in contact with a living system, they switch on and multiply. (194)

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.