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
The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson 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
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
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
Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air. — Megan 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
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all… — Alan Huffman 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
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
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they… — Aleister Crowley 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
You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing! — Rutvik Oza Copy Share Image