Bacteria Quotes

• Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!

  Rutvik Oza

  Common, Dividing, One Thing

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• What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Outstanding, Domination, Constant

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• If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

  Stewart Brand

  Planets, Ifs

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.187, Penguin

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• Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

  Steven Wright

  People, Support, Culture

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• To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

  Sandor Katz

  War, Ninety Nine, Killing

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• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

  Bill Bryson

  Clever, Believe, Cities

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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• With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, People, One Line

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• We are all of us walking communities of bacteria.
  The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape
  made of tiny living beings.

  Lynn Margulis

  Community, World, Landscape

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1986). “Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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• The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

  Lewis Thomas

  Real, Science, Dna

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

  Hesiod

  People, Culture, One Liner

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• For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Firsts, Half

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of other pieces. Whether that's organic components, living organisms inside your body, bacteria or whatever it is, you're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

  Joe Rogan

  Mma, Trying, Pieces

  "Renaissance Man". Interview with Steph Daniels, www.sbnation.com. May 15, 2014.

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• 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 bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Intelligent, People

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• The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate, ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand. There was discover'd by me a fifth sort, which had near the thickness of the former, but they were almost twice as long.
  The first time bacteria were observed.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Eye, Science, Long

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• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Trying, Viruses, Earth

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• Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed in the entire Peloponnesian War. This is because turkey can contain salmonella, which are tiny bacteria that, if they get in your bloodstream, develop into full-grown salmon, which could come leaping out of your mouth during an important business presentation.

  Dave Barry

  War, Funny Thanksgiving, Years

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• The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Insane, World, Beast

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• Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

  Walter Gilbert

  Animal, Biology, Genes

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• 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 to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters.

  David Wolfe

  Our World, Water, Car

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• Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

  Henry Lindlahr

  Peculiar, Disease, Soil

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• I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Thinking, Knives

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• Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Holiday, Thinking, Turkeys

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• Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

  Douglas Coupland

  Air, Leaving, Bars

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• [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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