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“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

“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms,…

— Hannah Landecker

“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since there is…

— Alan H. Linton

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

— Debra Fischer

“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

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

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

— David Christian

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf

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

— Carl Woese

“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