Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material. — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
I just learned today that bacteria is not the back door of a cafeteria. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand… — Jonathan Eisen Copy Share Image
“Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.” — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Why do girls take there heels off at the club? There going to end up getting fungus, and it's not cute, in… — Ella Rojas Copy Share Image
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“So why, you are bound to ask at some point in your life, do microbes so often want to hurt us? What… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The citrus mealybug is a living matryoshka doll. It has bacteria living inside its cells, and those bacteria have more bacteria living… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I would have bacteria and, yeah, it would grow in what we call the danger zone, which is typically between 40 and… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
“The data might tell tales with preposterous plots, but they don't lie. They tell us that the citrus mealybug is a mash-up… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Humans are actually reservoir hosts for countless bacteria and viruses that haven’t even been classified yet. About twenty percent of the genetic… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“York from a Dutch neighbor who had immigrated from Java.” People living in the warm East Indian climate noticed that birds gathered… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his… — Felix D'Herelle Copy Share Image
“Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
“Of course I'd long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn't much like… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigger inflammation in your arteries,… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
When you walk into anybody's house with footwear, you tend to bring in germs and bacteria. — Mayawati Copy Share Image