Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope. — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigger inflammation in your arteries,… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“Recent study of beetle digestive tracts has found more than 650 distinct yeasts, at least 200 of which were previously unidentified,” — Sandor Ellix Katz Copy Share Image
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution, bacteria and moisture loss. — Paul Nassif Copy Share Image
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground.… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
“Guesswork plays a part in these estimates. Bacteria exist 40 miles above the Earth and 7 miles deep in the ocean, and… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“The squid has even evolved a special place to house the bacteria - a structure scientists call a 'light organ' located inside… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts.… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“For people who study these domains, the difference is clear. Both the Bacteria and the Archaea do not have nuclei. Whereas, you… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Each of us bears billions of one-celled creatures within us, and not just as free-riders. They are our best friends, and deadliest… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The successful proliferation of bacteria will eventually destroy the stage on which it lives. The process only knows growth, and growth can… — Matthew Revert Copy Share Image
“Watson was probably now considered a primitive, single-celled bacterium on the evolutionary scale of synthetic intelligence.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
When you walk into anybody's house with footwear, you tend to bring in germs and bacteria. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
“Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming… — Jonathan Eisen Copy Share Image
It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“ Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or… — Andrew H. Knoll Copy Share Image
If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image