Best Microbes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails

“Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.”

People Play Serious Savages Microbes Gnats

Author:John Muir

“Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified let alone cultured or had their genes sequenced, so really that microbial realm is a mystery.”

Has Beens Earth Mystery Surface Realms Genes Microbes

Author:Paul Davies

“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Thinking Men Helping Hands Baby Husband Clothes Garden Empty Mere Bridges Servant Plato Daddy Microbes Embroidery Empty Words Parallelogram

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.”

Nice Health Welcome Southern Polite Immune Inviting Germs Dip Immune System Microbes Hostesses Artichokes

Book:Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

Source: Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

“For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.”

School Theory Strife Continuity Microbes Continuity Of Life

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”

“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.”

Ifs Men World Able Suffering Religious Enemy Poverty Ignorance Sick Misery Dues Barriers Superstitions Intolerance Inability Perversion Religious Intolerance Microbes

Author:Brock Chisholm

“If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Earth Joy Ocean Importance Atmosphere Glimpse Majesty Beam Microbes

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.”

Different Body Goal Type Protect Transformation Cancer Immune Immune System Invaders Microbes

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes - against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a great, undifferentiated lawn across the globe.”

Senses Protest Globes Rolling Flavor Behalf Lawns Eloquent Lodges Microbes

Book:Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!”

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.”

Men May Death Joy Envy Cheese Germs Dead Man Microbes

Book:The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

“He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.”

Soul Body Danger Conscience Dishes Washing Mania Microbes

Author:Anais Nin

“When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.”

“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?”

Ifs Men Should Writing Might Asks Space Mad Strive Dust Bother Sat Cosmos Symphony Futility Momentary Unimaginable Immensity Insignificance Microbes Numbing Termination Anomie

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.”

Would Be Earth Form Left Planets Scientist Finals Microbes

Author:Brad Steiger

“Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or untraviolet light, for example. We can hear only a small range of sounds. When we try to describe the otherworld of energies and spirits, we are limited not only by our bodily constraints but by the expectations, assumptions, and language patterns ingrained in us by the culture we were raised in.”

Trying Reality Light Spirit Culture Energy Language Sound Brain Example Expectations Raised Patterns Senses Range Perceive Assumption Constraints Paganism Fractions Microbes

Author:Starhawk

“We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.”

Knows World Wells Happens Certain Levels Taken Havens Depends Mass Species Including Forests Soil Organisms Ecology Predictions Crude Microbes Hardwood Invertebrates

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.”

Inspirational Art Literature Fields Painting Theater Complexes Protection Mathematical Penetrate Microbes Ironclads

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.”

Kind May Moments Successful Planets Asteroids Microbes

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.”

Ifs Way Stills Difficult Deals Impossible Unique Response Familiar Protective Viruses Hiv Immune Immune System Unclear Microbes

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death”

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.”