Bacteria Quote by Richard Dawkins

In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous…

— David M. Raup

“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

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

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells…

— Bonnie Bassler

It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people…

— Bonnie Bassler

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

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf

“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

“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of our gut),…

— Michael Pollan

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal,…

— Michael Specter

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Carl Woese