Bacteria Quotes

90 quotes by 71 authors

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally… — Alexander Fleming
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didnâ€™t plan to… — Alexander Fleming
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have… — Vandana Shiva
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of… — Murray Bookchin
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded… — James Lovelock
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one… — Christian de Duve
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems… — Robert Frenay
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. — Walter Gilbert
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
They all have in common that they are bacteria caused by bowel and feces. — Kennedy
[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it… — Bonnie Bassler
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in… — Lewis Thomas
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the… — Thom Hartmann
Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. — Douglas Coupland
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence… — Richard Dawkins
I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria. — Andrew Weil
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth… — Neil Shubin
The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! — Paul Stamets

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