Just look at what happens to humans after they die-most of…

...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

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

What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of…

— Frances Moore Lappé

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise…

— Costa Georgiadis

They say there's microbes in a kiss, This rumor is most rife, Come, lady dear, and make of me - An invalid for life

— Anonymous

I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller…

— Enric Sala

Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your…

— Chuck Palahniuk

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the…

— Anais Nin

I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from…

— Suzanne Lee

“Most animals can't tap into these open-source adaptations deliberately. The flies didn't seek out Spiroplasma to solve their worm problem. Woodrats didn't go looking…

— Ed Yong

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous…

— John Muir

“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected).…

— Sam Kean

'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Everyone, he knew for a fact, was populated by billions of microbes, and not simply the flora in their digestive tracts. People played host…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant…

— Alexander Fleming