“The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.”— Herman Melville Related Quotes “Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”– Ray Bradbury “The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.”– Lewis Mumford “Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious pathogen, including the Black Death of the Middle Ages. Epidemiologists think that smallpox killed roughly one billion people during its last hundred years of activity onearth.”— Richard Preston