Causes Quote by Elie Metchnikoff

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

— Henry Lindlahr

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…

— Robert Morse

To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way,…

— Louis Pasteur

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.

— Theodor Schwann

“Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…

— K. Eric Drexler

“Ecological disturbance causes diseases to emerge. Shake a tree, and things fall out. Nearly all zoonotic diseases result from infection by one of six…

— David Quammen

... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the…

— Robert Koch

“Dr. Joff Silberg and Dr. Carrie Masiello are a husband-and-wife team of professors at Rice University. He is a synthetic biologist. She is a…

— Kelly Weinersmith

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

— Paul Stamets

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

— Charles V. Chapin

“The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form the rivet…

— Neil Shubin