Sue Hubbell Quotes


Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.


Citations

Hubbell, Sue. Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about Genes. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

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  • Born: January 28, 1935
  • Died: October 13, 2018
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author

Suzanne Hubbell was an American author. Her books A Country Year and A Book of Bees were selected by The New York Times Book Review as Notable Books of the Year. She also wrote for The New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of The New York Times.