Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

“Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

...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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is…

— David M. Raup

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in…

— Michael Pollan