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The smallest unit of life – a single bacterial cell – is a monument of pattern and process unrivalled in the universe as we know it.

Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (University of California Press, 1986)

But there is something terrifying about the fact that nothing can stop the implacable evolution of these viruses as they test, through mindless mutation, ever more strategies to facilitate their survival, a survival that just may represent disease and death for us humans.

C. J. Peters and Mark Olshaker, Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses around the World (Anchor Books, 1997)