He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as… — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming… — Jonathan Eisen Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
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
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a… — Suzanne Lee Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Everyone, he knew for a fact, was populated by billions of microbes, and not simply the flora in their digestive tracts. People… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as exemplified by RIA, has… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
Fortunately, our immune system can be improved and empowered to such a point that not only can the harmful microbes be halted… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay],… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
“The world around us is a gigantic reservoir of potential microbial partners. Every mouthful could bring in new microbes that digest a… — Ed Yong 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
All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
It has a double meaning - the superabundance also means the space around, the incomparable massiveness of things, and how there's not… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian… — Jean Webster 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
To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing… — Frida Kahlo 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
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. — Jessica Green Copy Share Image
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image