“ In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. Edward Tatum
“ The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams… Ferdinand Cohn
“ For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, bac… Carl Zimmer
“ We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little un… Charles Darwin
“ The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells. Theodor Schwann
“ Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In fact, only a small percentage of the cells in the human body… Brenda Wilmoth Lerner
“ Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color. Sam Kean
“ Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influenc… Emma Thompson
