Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships…

“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of…

— Greg Egan

“There’s been a revival of the old debate: with the failure of the wormholes, should we consider redesigning our minds to encompass interstellar distances?…

— Greg Egan

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

— Yahya Jammeh

“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects, spiders, and…

— Richard E. Leakey

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and we can…

— E. O. Wilson

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of…

— Thomas A. Edison

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…

— K. Eric Drexler

“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

“Drinking lots of alcohol makes the gut leakier, allowing microbes to more readily influence the brain. Could that help to explain why alcoholics often…

— Ed Yong

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale…

— Alan Bennett

You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady.…

— Neil Gaiman

...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they live and…

— Ed McCabe

“Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano