Quote by Stephen Hawking

“I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing…

— Richard Dawkins

“Each of us bears billions of one-celled creatures within us, and not just as free-riders. They are our best friends, and deadliest enemies. Some…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Never a cell biologist at heart, as a colleague recalled, he contaminated the cells, infected the cultures, and grew out balls of fungi in…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

— Iain McGilchrist

“Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of…

— Lewis Padgett

“Horror’s a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.”

— Stephen King

We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.

— Jonathan Eisen

“Everyone, he knew for a fact, was populated by billions of microbes, and not simply the flora in their digestive tracts. People played host…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Deep inside every animal colon, ours included, thrives an entire cosmos of creatures more strange and wondrous than any dreamed up in a Hollywood…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“Watson was probably now considered a primitive, single-celled bacterium on the evolutionary scale of synthetic intelligence.”

— Dan Brown

“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

At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was…

— Rob Thurman