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Bacteria Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- 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…
- We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and…
- The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be…
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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… — 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