In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I just learned today that bacteria is not the back door of a cafeteria. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material. — William Stringfellow 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
“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'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
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
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. — Jessica Green 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
Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I always cook meats on low and things like eggs or cakes on high, because things with eggs in them you want… — Michele Scicolone 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
Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Still, on average, 97 percent of the MRSA isolates were USA300. In addition, 74 percent of them were a single identical strain,… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“The pH rises in the intestines and bacterial numbers increase a millionfold from about 1,000 cells per gram of stomach contents, which… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“Some ancient eukaryote swallowed a photosynthesizing bacteria and became a sunlight gathering alga. Millions of years later one of these algae was… — Carl Zimmer 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
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
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
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
We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this… — Juan Enriquez 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
