Richard Preston said this quote

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

~ Richard Preston

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

~ Richard Preston

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

~ Richard Preston

The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.

~ Richard Preston