A virus is a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein.

——Peter Madawar

病毒是包裹在蛋白質(zhì)里的一條壞消息。

——彼得·梅達沃

An inefficient virus kills its host.A clever virus stays with it.

——James Lovelock

低效的病毒消滅宿主，聰明的病毒與宿主共存。

——詹姆斯·洛夫洛克

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

——E.O.Wilson

病毒中所包含地球上的基因種類超過（或很可能超過）所有其他生物里基因種類的總和。

——E.O.威爾遜

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

——Lewis Thomas

我們生活在病毒舞動的矩陣之中，它們像蜜蜂一樣在不同的生命體之間穿梭往返，從植物到昆蟲，從別的哺乳動物到我，然后又折回頭，進入海洋，拖著這個基因組的幾個片段、那個基因組的幾根基因鏈條，嫁接著DNA，傳遞著遺傳物質(zhì)，宛若在參加一場宏大的聚會。

——劉易斯·托馬斯