Bacteria Quotes · Page 7

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

— E. O. Wilson

I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.…

— James Lovelock

Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules…

— Bonnie Bassler

“You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and…

— Frances Arnold

[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the…

— Marjory Stephenson

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some…

— Robert Jastrow

In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria,…

— Robin Marantz Henig

However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them…

— Robert Koch

[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things…

— Bonnie Bassler

I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking,…

— Cat Cora

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

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

— Lynn Margulis

“...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

Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it…

— Bonnie Bassler

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it…

— William A. Dembski

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit…

— Bonnie Bassler

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and…

— Edward Abbey

I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell…

— Bonnie Bassler