Microbes Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. — James Walsh
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. — Antonio Porchia
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. — Hilaire Belloc
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely… — Paul Davies
'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. — Robert H. Jackson
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but… — Frederick Lenz
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-… — John Muir
Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified… — Paul Davies
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans.… — Freeman Dyson
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when… — Jeremy Rifkin
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn… — T.H. White
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.) — Louis Pasteur
All it takes,â€ said Crake, â€œis the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the… — Margaret Atwood
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even whatâ€™s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food… — Chuck Palahniuk
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books.… — Jean-Paul Sartre
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is… — Alan Bennett
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a… — Janine Benyus
We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms. — Jonathan Eisen
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially… — Nathan Wolfe

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