We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. — Benjamin Franklin 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 problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.” — Sandor Ellix Katz Copy Share Image
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply. — Henry Lindlahr Copy Share Image
The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
“Biologists discovered the microbiome just over the past couple of decades. They are still puzzling out how the microbes in your body… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground.… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
“ Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Drinking lots of alcohol makes the gut leakier, allowing microbes to more readily influence the brain. Could that help to explain why… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Matters came to a head after 1918, when the French scientist Paul Portier published his rhetorical masterpiece Les Symbiotes. He was nothing… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
“The squid has even evolved a special place to house the bacteria - a structure scientists call a 'light organ' located inside… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Caenorhabditis elegans—a simple creature made of only 959 cells? It probably never thinks, “That was damn tasty bacteria I got to dine… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope. — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution, bacteria and moisture loss. — Paul Nassif Copy Share Image
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