Bacteria Quote by Stewart Brand Download Open image “If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.” — Stewart Brand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bacteria Ifs Life Microbes Planets Science World
You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They are expert pharmacologists that excel at making chemicals that kill each other. If you want to defend yourself from another creature or eat a new source of food, there's almost certainly a microbe that already has the right… — Ed Yong Copy Share
“Ironically, a species of resilient bacteria—in fact, the same species in each case—was found in both a NASA and an ESA clean room. Clearly,… — Jon Willis Copy Share Image
Most germs aren't bad. You're in a microbial environment all the time. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“…I learned in biology class that more bacteria live and work in one centimeter of my colon, than the number of people who have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep.… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Since the soon-to-be outnumber the living; since the living have greater impact on the unborn than ever before thanks to depletion of natural systems,… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Information wants to be free,because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence. — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image