Biology Quote by Hannah Landecker

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells…

— Bonnie Bassler

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…

— Michael Denton

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently…

— Marjory Stephenson

“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to…

— Ivan Illich

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard

“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They are expert…

— Ed Yong

“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated…

— Richard Dawkins

Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us…

— Carl Woese

“In the 150 years since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the life sciences have come to see organisms as biochemical algorithms.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups…

— Bonnie Bassler

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

— Kevin Kelly