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
“The successful proliferation of bacteria will eventually destroy the stage on which it lives. The process only knows growth, and growth can… — Matthew Revert Copy Share Image
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Watson was probably now considered a primitive, single-celled bacterium on the evolutionary scale of synthetic intelligence.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist. — Debra Fischer 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
When we look at 105-year-old people around the world, they carry the diverse gut microbiome of 30-year-old people. — Steven Gundry 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
“The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more… — Bonnie Bassler 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
“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
Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope. — Tami Hoag 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
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
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see. — Bonnie Bassler 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
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
“Recent study of beetle digestive tracts has found more than 650 distinct yeasts, at least 200 of which were previously unidentified,” — Sandor Ellix Katz 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
“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
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
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
“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
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image