I just learned today that bacteria is not the back door of a cafeteria. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the… — Abbey Lee Kershaw Copy Share Image
What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand… — Jonathan Eisen Copy Share Image
“The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.” — Sandor Ellix Katz Copy Share Image
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.” — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply. — Henry Lindlahr Copy Share Image
“The citrus mealybug is a living matryoshka doll. It has bacteria living inside its cells, and those bacteria have more bacteria living… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“Matters came to a head after 1918, when the French scientist Paul Portier published his rhetorical masterpiece Les Symbiotes. He was nothing… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“Some ancient eukaryote swallowed a photosynthesizing bacteria and became a sunlight gathering alga. Millions of years later one of these algae was… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“Caenorhabditis elegans—a simple creature made of only 959 cells? It probably never thinks, “That was damn tasty bacteria I got to dine… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When we look at 105-year-old people around the world, they carry the diverse gut microbiome of 30-year-old people. — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist. — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image