Appreciate Quote by E. O. Wilson

“No one knows the number of bacterial species. About 5,000 species have been characterized and another 10,000 have been partially identified. Biodiversity authority Edward…

— Anne E. Maczulak

Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and we can…

— E. O. Wilson

“we probably know of less than 1 percent of soil biology. “A recent study found that there are more than 1.6 million species of…

— Judith D. Schwartz

There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to be told.…

— E. O. Wilson

“It seems a shame that less than 1 percent of all the species that ever lived survive today and that only about 5 percent…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

“By most reasonable estimates, there are about a million-trillion-trillion, or 1030, of them (ten followed by 30 zeroes) here on this planet. There are…

— Bill Nye

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is…

— Paul Davies

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that…

— E. O. Wilson

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

— E. O. Wilson

“All we know for sure is that if some astronomer turned a telescope to a far-off star cluster tonight and found incontrovertible evidence of…

— Sam Kean

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…

— Paul Davies

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

— Kinichiro Sakaguchi