Always trust a microbiologist because they have the best…

I came from a family of scientists. My father is a microbiologist and my grandfather is an organic chemist. I had a very science-…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

“If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.”

— Jack Caldwell

“It was a fungal party hellscape.”

— Robin Sloan

“Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.”

— Sam Kean

“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I tore out…

— Ed Yong

“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and…

— Ferdinand Cohn

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist,…

— Kathy Reichs

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a…

— Carl Sagan

Disgust is intuitive microbiology

— Steven Pinker

“Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as…

— Emma Thompson

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant…

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

— Hesiod

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

— E. O. Wilson