What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce,… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber;… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form… — Neil Shubin 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
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
We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
“around, some microbiologists have suggested that classifying bacteria by species is futile. It seems as if all bacteria belong to one mega-species,… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations'… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more… — Bonnie Bassler 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
“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
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
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
“ 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
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
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
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
I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“Baclli swarm within my portals Such as ne'r conceived by mortals, But, bred by scientists, Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“One bacterial species stood out, both for its protective powers and for its colour: blackish-purple, ominous but darkly beautiful. It was called… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and… — John Tanton Copy Share Image
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
“The microbiome affects our mood, libido, metabolism, immunity, and even our perception of the world and the clarity of our thoughts. It… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
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![“Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.” quote by Sandor Katz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f4/sandor-katz-69418_antibiotics_since-we-re-living-with-antibiotic-drugs_2380439.jpg)
