Bacteria Quotes

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We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least,… — Noam Chomsky
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows… — Hans Zinsser
Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as… — Isaac Asimov
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are… — Martin Rees
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them with granular masses… — Robert Koch
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means… — George Miller Sternberg
It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with… — Marjory Stephenson
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than… — Marjory Stephenson
[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a… — Marjory Stephenson
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run… — Vaclav Smil
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could… — K. Eric Drexler
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold,… — Douglas Rushkoff
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in… — Aleister Crowley
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all… — Richard E. Berendzen
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed… — Dave Barry

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