Animal Quote by Robert Koch

“According to pioneering microbiologist Lynn Margulis, "fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although they are…

— Marcia Bjornerud

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

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

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

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

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

— Bonnie Bassler

It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any…

— George Miller Sternberg

I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that help us…

— Will Hobbs

“Even the majority of the cells in your body are microorganisms. They outnumber the cells of your body by 10 to 1. Those microbes…

— Bill Nye

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in…

— Michael Pollan

“Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In fact, only…

— Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

“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