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- [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…
- When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to…
- Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to…
- I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it…
- 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 in…
- Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every…
- Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.
More Bacteria Quotes
- We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world… — 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… — Hans Zinsser
- Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla… — Isaac Asimov
- 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
- Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think… — Martin Rees
- ... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — 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… — 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… — Robert Koch
- It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — Unknown Author
- 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