Education Quote by Sandor Ellix Katz

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule…

— E. O. Wilson

“yeast, which is a fungus, and lactobacillus, a bacteria. They eat flour—its sugars—and poop out acid—thus, sour—”

— Robin Sloan

The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple…

— John B. S. Haldane

“In biology, fungus is a kingdom unto itself, a documented land of rot and decay, a place for yeasts and molds and spores and…

— A.S.A. Harrison

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand…

— Anonymous

“Tackled some giant, burrowing beetles the other week, if you can believe that…. At that stage I didn’t know about it either – only…

— Mark Speed

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation…

— Anonymous

“No longer could I root happily into my mother's company and find comfort in her rounded shape. There was no one to tell me…

— Kate Bernheimer

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty…

— Richard Leakey

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you…

— Anthony Head

“The pH rises in the intestines and bacterial numbers increase a millionfold from about 1,000 cells per gram of stomach contents, which to a…

— Anne E. Maczulak

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