“I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.” — Arthur Kornberg Copy Share Image
It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases. — E. Cheraskin Copy Share Image
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance. — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs. — Anonymous 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
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in… — David Stoddart Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of anyone in a costume. A trip to see Santa might as well have been a trip to sit… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“They sat on fold-up beach chairs and were talking about polio. The older ones, like his grandmother, had lived through the city's… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I had to stop him from arresting an old lady who let her dog urinate against the fire hydrant that was in… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest. — Donna Karan Copy Share Image