“Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could m...” — Michael Specter Quote

“Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.”

“We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.”

“Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?”

“I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.”

“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.”

“When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.”