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Bacteria Quotes by Alexander Fleming
- 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…
- One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to…
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- With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- ... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser
- It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those… — Marjory Stephenson
- Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson
- [In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the… — 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… — 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… — K. Eric Drexler
- If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice… — Christian de Duve