We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we…

Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution…

— David Wolfe

It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any…

— George Miller Sternberg

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already…

— Louis Pasteur

“Of course I'd long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn't much like being reminded…

— John Green

If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get…

— Andrew H. Knoll

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only…

— H. Bentley Glass

In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous…

— David M. Raup

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells…

— Bonnie Bassler

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently…

— Marjory Stephenson

You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions…

— Joe Rogan

Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we…

— James D. Watson

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small…

— Robert Frenay

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty…

— Richard Leakey

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny…

— E. O. Wilson

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by…

— Dalai Lama