Money Quote by Ani DiFranco

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

— Ani DiFranco

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than…

— Sean Chercover

“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve at blistering…

— Ed Yong

“There's more money spent on research to cure symptoms than search for causes. Diet, everyday living health issues, corporate dumping of toxins into drinking…

— Christien Gholson

“We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial condos, with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Take stock, citizen bacillus, Now that there are so many billions of you, Bleeding through your opened veins, Into your bathtub, or into the…

— John Brunner

“The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.”

— Sandor Ellix Katz

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling…

— Louis Pasteur

“So in the struggle against natural calamities such as AIDS and Ebola, the scales are tipping in humanity’s favour. But what about the dangers…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet political realities in America made it increasingly unfeasible for entrepreneurs there to tinker with…

— Daniel Suarez

“Okay, but what about microbial disease? “To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health…

— Michael Pollan

“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I tore out…

— Ed Yong