“Even the majority of the cells in your body are microorganisms. They outnumber the cells of your body by 10 to 1.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“At depth, microbes shrink in size and become extremely sluggish. The liveliest of them may divide no more than once a century18,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson 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
Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“As fascinating and just plain weird as the deep-sea geothermal vent ecosystems are, they have a great deal less diversity than we… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The world around us is a gigantic reservoir of potential microbial partners. Every mouthful could bring in new microbes that digest a… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to:… — Noam Chomsky 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
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing,… — Bruce Fife Copy Share Image
“The variations that exist between the body parts dwarf those that exist between people. Put simply, the bacteria on your forearm are… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“we probably know of less than 1 percent of soil biology. “A recent study found that there are more than 1.6 million… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The issue I have is that the cooking techniques are up for questioning, today more than ever before. If you waterbath beef… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do… — Pamela Ronald 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
Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“No one knows the number of bacterial species. About 5,000 species have been characterized and another 10,000 have been partially identified. Biodiversity… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
“They're just bacteria. They don't think or plan. They just...exist.' 'Just exist? They do things we only dream of. They are fecund… — Sourdough Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“As I write, we now consider nature to have given rise to three or four foundational types of living things, or domains… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
Life is all about creating a balance. Moderation is the name of the game. We are what we eat, breathe and think.… — Dr Neil Pande Kathmandu Nepal Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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