Astonishing Quote by Alexander Fleming

“Staph colonization is remarkable. There is no other disease-causing bacterium that is carried, without causing infection, by such a substantial slice of the population.…

— Maryn McKenna

...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating…

— David Fairchild

“Gaia giveth even as she taketh away. The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers, shifted rainfall…

— Paul Di Filippo

My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want…

— Bill Cosby

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

— Thomas Sowell

“evolution of the lactase persistence allele, and it locates it in an area engulfing Slovakia, with Poland to the north and Hungary to the…

— Adam Rutherford

“One might go to the bakery, perhaps," he said. "But did you know the baker has tuberculosis? All the people here run around in…

— Thomas Bernhard

“2Do not mistake these multiple trends--the energy flows of metropolitan growth, the new taste for tea, the nascent, half-formed awareness of mass behavior--for mere…

— Steven Johnson

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

— Arnold Wesker