Bacteria Quote by William Stringfellow Download Open image “Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.” — William Stringfellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bacteria Benign Example Materials
Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy… — Winston Churchill 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
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or… — Jane Poynter Copy Share Image
“In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.” — Sandor Ellix Katz Copy Share Image
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of… — Robert Morse Copy Share Image
Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper! — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
“When I write that my own situation in those months of pain and decision can be described as prayer, I do not only recall… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“Thus the vocation of the baptized person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day brings, in… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance,… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America. — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church is the… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence),… — William Stringfellow 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