“Just look at what happens to humans after they die-most of that is done by microbes.” — William R. Clark Copy Share Image
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. — Charles V. Chapin Copy Share Image
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. — Jessica Green Copy Share Image
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. — James Walsh Copy Share Image
Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. — Robert Jackson Copy Share Image
In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the… — Brad Steiger 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
They say there's microbes in a kiss, This rumor is most rife, Come, lady dear, and make of me - An invalid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.) — Louis Pasteur 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
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
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm.… — Paul Davies 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
“Of course I'd long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn't much like… — John Green Copy Share Image
In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“And in maintaining such constancy, microbes are crucial. They affect the storage of fat. They help to replenish the linings of the… — Ed Yong 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
“Most animals can't tap into these open-source adaptations deliberately. The flies didn't seek out Spiroplasma to solve their worm problem. Woodrats didn't… — Ed Yong 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
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. — John Muir Copy Share Image
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting… — Anonymous 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