"At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that……" — Harvey V. Fineberg

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• We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be… — Noam Chomsky
• But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will… — Hans Zinsser
• Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The… — Isaac Asimov
• With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend… — Martin Rees
• ... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves… — Hans Zinsser
• [Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson
• Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species,… — H. Bentley Glass
• However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or… — Robert Koch
• It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial… — George Miller Sternberg
• It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only… — Marjory Stephenson
• Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must… — Marjory Stephenson

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