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
...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they live and… — Ed McCabe 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
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Drinking lots of alcohol makes the gut leakier, allowing microbes to more readily influence the brain. Could that help to explain why alcoholics often… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“According to pioneering microbiologist Lynn Margulis, "fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although they are… — Marcia Bjornerud 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
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and we can… — E. O. Wilson 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
“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects, spiders, and… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
