Stranded DNA Virus

Famous quotes containing the words stranded, dna and/or virus:

“Durer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this, with eight stranded whales
to look at;”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)