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
You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground.… — Josh Fox 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
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
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff 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
“As I write, we now consider nature to have given rise to three or four foundational types of living things, or domains… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
Life is all about creating a balance. Moderation is the name of the game. We are what we eat, breathe and think.… — Dr Neil Pande Kathmandu Nepal 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
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and… — Robert Morse Copy Share Image
“People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than… — Mike Duran Copy Share Image
Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently… — Michael Pollan 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
...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they… — Ed McCabe 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
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson 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 usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins 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
“At depth, microbes shrink in size and become extremely sluggish. The liveliest of them may divide no more than once a century18,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing,… — Bruce Fife Copy Share Image
“The variations that exist between the body parts dwarf those that exist between people. Put simply, the bacteria on your forearm are… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
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![“[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house; we keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and…” quote by Marjory Stephenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a8/marjory-stephenson-65539_accurate_in-research-on-bacteria-metabolism-we-ha_2951359.png)
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