82 Quotes About Bacteria
- Author Jennifer Gardy
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Clostridium botulinum: Found in jams and preserves that weren't prepared properly, this bad bug produces one of the deadliest toxins on Earth-it enters our nerve cells and paralyzes them. Marketed as Botox, it's injected into people's foreheads to make wrinkles disappear!
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- Author Jennifer Gardy
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You can even tell where a person's family came from by looking at the type of bacterium he or she carries!
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- Author Carl Zimmer
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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, bacteria are giants. You could line up a thousand viruses alongside that same grain of salt.
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- Author Jozef Simkovic
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Everything in all manifested universes is composed of strings. They are created immediately after a Big Bang and they rapidly multiply like viruses or bacteria until they are brought under the control by dark matter and dark energy.
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- Author Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying.
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- Author Kim Stanley Robinson
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The blow killed Babe and Paul Bunyan both, and after that Paul had to admit that he was beat.But his own bacteria ate him, naturally, and they crawled all around down on the bedrock and under the megaregolith, down there going everywhere, sucking up the mantle heat, and eating the sulfides, and melting down the permafrost. And everywhere they went down there, every one of those little bacteria said I am Paul Bunyan.
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- Author Neil Gaiman
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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..
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- Author Rutvik Oza
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Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!
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- Author Elizabeth Anderson
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The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than the professional setting. We feel strongly that consumers must continue to have the choice to use these products.
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