Afford Quote by Lynn Margulis

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

— Lynn Margulis

“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

Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been…

— Paul Davies

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

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf

If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist.

— Debra Fischer

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

“... despite the profound advances in molecular biology oer the past half-century, we still do not understand what life is, how it relates to…

— Addy Pross

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the…

— Chris Hadfield