With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The issue I have is that the cooking techniques are up for questioning, today more than ever before. If you waterbath beef… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do… — Pamela Ronald Copy Share Image
“we probably know of less than 1 percent of soil biology. “A recent study found that there are more than 1.6 million… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“As I glided further into the dusty mollusk volumes, I discovered that gastropods - which account for 80 percent of all mollusks… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects,… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“According to pioneering microbiologist Lynn Margulis, "fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although… — Marcia Bjornerud Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats.… — John E. Walker Copy Share Image
“Ironically, a species of resilient bacteria—in fact, the same species in each case—was found in both a NASA and an ESA clean… — Jon Willis Copy Share Image
“Deep inside every animal colon, ours included, thrives an entire cosmos of creatures more strange and wondrous than any dreamed up in… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, there is even less diversity of gut bacteria in obese people than in lean people: more food does not equal more… — Sarah Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact… — Jessica Green Copy Share Image
Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
“The microbiome may vary from day to day, from sunrise to sunset, or even from meal to meal, but such variations are… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“Even the majority of the cells in your body are microorganisms. They outnumber the cells of your body by 10 to 1.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
“The microbiome affects our mood, libido, metabolism, immunity, and even our perception of the world and the clarity of our thoughts. It… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and… — John Tanton Copy Share Image
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
“One bacterial species stood out, both for its protective powers and for its colour: blackish-purple, ominous but darkly beautiful. It was called… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Baclli swarm within my portals Such as ne'r conceived by mortals, But, bred by scientists, Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
![“Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.” quote by Sandor Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/sandor-katz-69418_antibiotics_since-we-re-living-with-antibiotic-drugs_2380439.jpg)
