Clean Room Quote by Jon Willis

“It turns out that a number of species of Earth microbes can survive and grow in conditions of Martian temperature, pressure, atmospheric composition, and…

— Jon Willis

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

— Stewart Brand

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the…

— E. O. Wilson

I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in boiling pools…

— Will Hobbs

“There are so many examples of human misuse of the Earth that even phrasing this question chills me. If there is life on Mars,…

— Carl Sagan

You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.

— Bonnie Bassler

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework

— Carl Woese

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have…

— Bill Bryson

Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the…

— Seth Shostak

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf

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

NASA, and all the other spacefaring nations of the world, have agreed to a set of 'planetary-protection' principles, aimed at preventing the accidental contamination…

— David Grinspoon