Quote by Anne E. Maczulak

“By most reasonable estimates, there are about a million-trillion-trillion, or 1030, of them (ten followed by 30 zeroes) here on this planet. There are…

— Bill Nye

“Venter concluded from a two-year study of marine microbes that for every 200 miles of ocean, 85 percent of the species, judged by unique…

— Anne E. Maczulak

“No one knows the number of bacterial species. About 5,000 species have been characterized and another 10,000 have been partially identified. Biodiversity authority Edward…

— Anne E. Maczulak

“…I learned in biology class that more bacteria live and work in one centimeter of my colon, than the number of people who have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in boiling pools…

— Will Hobbs

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see…

— Bonnie Bassler

“The oceans cover 65% of the globe’s surface and, as there are up to 10 billion viruses per one litre of sea water, the…

— Dorothy H. Crawford

“we probably know of less than 1 percent of soil biology. “A recent study found that there are more than 1.6 million species of…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf

If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist.

— Debra Fischer

“Consider the difference in size between some of the very tiniest and the very largest creatures on Earth. A small bacterium weights as little…

— Laurie Garrett