I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms…

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

— Kinichiro Sakaguchi

From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.

— Robert Koch

“even while it’s true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons—as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms indisputably tell…

— David Eagleman

“Even the majority of the cells in your body are microorganisms. They outnumber the cells of your body by 10 to 1. Those microbes…

— Bill Nye

...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's…

— Lewis Thomas

Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few…

— E. O. Wilson

“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

... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the…

— Robert Koch

“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body…

— Ashim Shanker

If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary…

— Friedrich Loeffler

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant…

— Nathan Wolfe

And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we…

— Thomas Ligotti

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

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of…

— Louis Pasteur

Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance to our…

— Bryan Kest