Bacteria Quote by Lynn Margulis

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us…

— Lynn Margulis

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

“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

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Debra Fischer

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass, in every…

— Brian Cox

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see…

— Bonnie Bassler

“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

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

— Bonnie Bassler

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

— Carl Woese

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf