Germany Quote by Sam Kean

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I…

— Randy Schekman

“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

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

— E. O. Wilson

“It was a fungal party hellscape.”

— Robin Sloan

“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I tore out…

— Ed Yong

“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and…

— Ferdinand Cohn

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist,…

— Kathy Reichs

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a…

— Carl Sagan

Disgust is intuitive microbiology

— Steven Pinker

“Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as…

— Emma Thompson

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant…

— Edward Lawrie Tatum