“The time has come to close the book . . .” New Yorker, “No Profit, No Cure,” November 5, 2001, p. 46.
“some 90 percent of those strains . . .”Economist, “Disease Fights Back,” May 20, 1995, p. 15.
“in 1997 a hospital in Tokyo reported the appearance . . .” Boston Globe, “Microbe Is Feared to Be Winning Battle Against Antibiotics,” May 30, 1997, p. A7.
“America’s National Institutes of Health . . .” Economist, “Bugged by Disease,” March 21, 1998, p. 93.
“Hundreds, even thousands of people . . .” Forbes, “Do Germs Cause Cancer?” November 15, 1999, p. 195.
“a bacterial component in all kinds of other disorders . . .” Science, “Do Chronic Diseases Have an Infectious Root?” September 14, 2001, pp. 1974-76.
“a piece of nucleic acid surrounded by bad news . . .” Quoted in Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues and History, p. 8.
“About five thousand types of virus are known . . .” Biddle, pp. 153-54.
“Smallpox in the twentieth century alone . . .” Oldstone, p. 1.
“In ten years the disease killed some five million people . . .” Kolata, Flu, p. 292.
“World War I killed twenty-one million people in four years . . .”American Heritage, “The Great Swine Flu Epidemic of 1918,” June 1976, p. 82.
“In an attempt to devise a vaccine . . .” American Heritage, “The Great Swine Flu Epidemic of 1918,” June 1976, p. 82.
“Researchers at the Manchester Royal Infirmary . . .”National Geographic, “The Disease Detectives,” January 1991, p. 132.
“In 1969, a doctor at a Yale University lab . . .” Oldstone, p. 126.
“In 1990, a Nigerian living in Chicago . . .” Oldstone, p. 128.
“The fate of nearly all living organisms . . .” Schopf, p. 72.
“Only about 15 percent of rocks can preserve fossils . . .” Lewis, The Dating Game, p. 24.
“less than one species in ten thousand . . .” Trefil, 101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either, p. 280.
“there are 250,000 species of creature in the fossil record . . .” Leakey and Lewin, The Sixth Extinction, p. 45.
“About 95 percent of all the fossils we possess . . .” Leakey and Lewin, The Sixth Extinction, p. 45.
“It seems like a big number . . .” Richard Fortey, interview by author, Natural History Museum, London, February 19, 2001.
“one-half of 1 percent as long.” Fortey, Trilobite! p. 24.
“a whole Profallotaspis or Elenellus as big as a crab . . .” Fortey, Trilobite! p. 121.
“built up a collection of sufficient distinction . . .” “From Farmer-Laborer to Famous Leader: Charles D. Walcott (1850-1927),” GSA Today, January 1996.
“In 1879 he took a job as a field researcher . . .” Gould, Wonderful Life, pp. 242-43.
“His books fill a library shelf . . .” Fortey, Trilobite! p. 53.
“our sole vista upon the inception of modern life . . .” Gould, Wonderful Life, p. 56.
“Gould, ever scrupulous, discovered . . .” Gould, Wonderful Life, p. 71.
“140 species in all, by one count.” Leakey and Lewin, The Sixth Extinction, p. 27.
“a range of disparity . . . never again equaled . . .” Gould, Wonderful Life, p. 208.
“Under such an interpretation,’ Gould sighed . . .” Gould, Eight Little Piggies, p. 225.
“Then in 1973 a graduate student from Cambridge . . .”
