Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“When most of us hear the word cells, we think biology. I think penitentiary. (It's an occupational hazard.)”

— Reginald Dipwipple

“Caenorhabditis elegans—a simple creature made of only 959 cells? It probably never thinks, “That was damn tasty bacteria I got to dine on back…

— Stephen Hawking

“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.”

— B.V. Lawson

“Like most pure fungi narratives, its interpretation and retelling into human terms is uncertain.”

— Orrin Grey

“CELL Now look objectively. You have to admit the cancer cell is beautiful. If it were a flower, you'd say, How pretty, with its…

— Margaret Atwood

“If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not…

— Laurie Nadel

“Fungi have as much right to life as I do. they know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish.

— Peter Nygard

“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

“Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown…

— Rebecca Skloot

In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce…

— James Rothman