Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the…

“around, some microbiologists have suggested that classifying bacteria by species is futile. It seems as if all bacteria belong to one mega-species, and different…

— Anne E. Maczulak

“According to pioneering microbiologist Lynn Margulis, "fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although they are…

— Marcia Bjornerud

In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups…

— Bonnie Bassler

“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms,…

— Hannah Landecker

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…

— Michael Denton

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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