Bacteria Quotes - Page 2

• To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

  Aleister Crowley

  God, Taken, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

  E. O. Wilson

  Dark, World, Matter

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• We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Example, World

  Chomsky, Noam “Essential Chomsky”, Penguin Books India

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• We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Lying, Men, Doubt

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• Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Government, Gmos, United States

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• One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

  Alexander Fleming

  Medicine, Dawn, World

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• Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

  Daniel Dennett

  Fall, Competition, Atheism

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• It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Faith, Enzymes, Belief

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• Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.

  Neil Shubin

  Party, Animal, June

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• Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Rocks, Iron, Made

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• I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Wise, Thinking, Our World

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• It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.

  Alexander Fleming

  Distance, Science, Self

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• My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Dark, Humans, Human Beings

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• You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

  Vandana Shiva

  Genes, Seeds, Insert

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• DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

  Spencer Wells

  Motivation, Inspiration, Dna

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• [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man.

  Hans Zinsser

  Men, Roots, Effort

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• Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

  William Stringfellow

  Example, Benign, Materials

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• 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. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese.

  Neil Gaiman

  Boss, Carrying On, Stuff

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We're now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Worry, Meat

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

  Paul A. Offit

  Protein

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sleep, Thinking, Disease

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

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• Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cousin, Tree, Monkeys

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.

  David M. Raup

  Leaving, Important, Earth

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• Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intelligent, Keys, Survival

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• There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

  Bernie Siegel

  Vaccines, Miracle, Viruses

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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