Living things Quote by Bill Nye

“The Greek word for kernel is karys, so the word used to describe creatures without a nucleus is prokaryotic—the name, originally procariotique, was coined…

— William Rosen

“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated…

— Richard Dawkins

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells…

— Richard Dawkins

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells…

— Bonnie Bassler

“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since there is…

— Alan H. Linton

It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people…

— Bonnie Bassler

“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to…

— Ivan Illich

“As I write, we now consider nature to have given rise to three or four foundational types of living things, or domains of life.…

— Bill Nye

“This was difficult to prove as most hydrogenosomes have lost their entire genome, but it is now established with some certainty.1 In other words,…

— Nick Lane

[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because…

— Bonnie Bassler

“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of our gut),…

— Michael Pollan

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

— Stewart Brand