Quote by Ed Yong

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

— Bonnie Bassler

We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is…

— Kyle Bradley

“According to pioneering microbiologist Lynn Margulis, "fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although they are…

— Marcia Bjornerud

“When you see these deep similarities among different organs and bodies, you begin to recognize that the diverse inhabitants of our world are just…

— Neil Shubin

“Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In fact, only…

— Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

— Steven Wright

“…I learned in biology class that more bacteria live and work in one centimeter of my colon, than the number of people who have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of our gut),…

— Michael Pollan

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

— Bonnie Bassler

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“This is a miracle of coevolution—the bacteria that coexist with us in our bodies enable us to exist. Microbiologist Michael Wilson notes that “each…

— Sandor Ellix Katz

“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. – Linda Ellerbee”

— Linda Ellerbee