Article Quote by Will Hobbs

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

“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

“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

“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

All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even…

— Bonnie Bassler

“When the microbiota of people living in Western cultures was analyzed in comparison with that of people living in rural settings who had hunter-gatherer–type…

— Sarah Ballantyne

“The bacteria don't physically reshape the gut themselves. Instead, they work via their hosts. They are more management than labour. Lora Hooper demonstrated this…

— Ed Yong

“The world around us is a gigantic reservoir of potential microbial partners. Every mouthful could bring in new microbes that digest a previously unbreakable…

— Ed Yong

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

I try to eat food that hasn't been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with cheese -…

— Rooney Mara

“We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal,…

— Michael Specter

“…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