Microbes Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to… — Maya Angelou
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope… — Louis Pasteur
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times… — Marcel Proust
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's… — Costa Georgiadis
I am unwilling to accord to some smallâˆ’minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more… — Nikola Tesla
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
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. — Charles V. Chapin
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. — Jessica Green
To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are… — Frida Kahlo
In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but… — Carl Zimmer
Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your… — Robert Morse
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
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to… — Alexander Fleming
"...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they live and proliferate… — Ed McCabe
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never… — Albert Camus

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