Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. — Robert Jackson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. — James Walsh Copy Share Image
Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing! — Rutvik Oza Copy Share Image
By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The oil acts like a cleanser. When you put it in your mouth and work it around your teeth and gums it… — Bruce Fife Copy Share Image
I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the… — Abbey Lee Kershaw Copy Share Image
...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they… — Ed McCabe Copy Share Image
We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than… — Mike Duran Copy Share Image
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Consider the difference in size between some of the very tiniest and the very largest creatures on Earth. A small bacterium weights… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“We have already seen how pliable the microbiome can be. It can change with a touch, with a meal, with a parasitic… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“The bacteria don't physically reshape the gut themselves. Instead, they work via their hosts. They are more management than labour. Lora Hooper… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“When microbiologists first started cataloguing the human microbiome in its entirety they hoped to discover a "core" microbiome: a group of species… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“This is a miracle of coevolution—the bacteria that coexist with us in our bodies enable us to exist. Microbiologist Michael Wilson notes… — Sandor Ellix Katz Copy Share Image
“We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“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… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“The Greek word for kernel is karys, so the word used to describe creatures without a nucleus is prokaryotic—the name, originally procariotique,… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“When Hamiltonella's genome was sequenced, the real reason behind the bacterium's protective powers became apparent: about half of its DNA actually belonged… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
