Famous Quotes & Sayings

What killed my brother were bacteria that were found in the water right there, in that harbor.

What killed my brother were bacteria found right there in the harbor.

What killed my brother was the bacteria that were found in the waters right there in that harbor. Regardless of what is said and done, ultimately, that's the thing that did it. Period.

While it may seem amusing at first, this is really a very serious issue. The more people do their part to control the spread of infections, the less we have to use antibiotics, which lose their potency over time as bacteria develop resistance to them.

Ada Yonath

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Alex Shoumatoff

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

Steven Wright

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

Stewart Brand

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

Richard Dawkins

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.

Tami Hoag

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

I don't think anybody knew that you could go in that water with a cut and you can be eaten up by flesh-eating bacteria and die.

I am very glad that we are able to assist people with an all natural product that works extremely well. Antibiotic resistance is a HUGE issue in medicine right now in America and around the world. The more we use antibiotics in people and animals, the more resistant bacteria is becoming.

Alex Jamieson

Eating a diet loaded with fat can overtax the liver and gall bladder, while eating a diet high in sugar can overwhelm even the strongest stomach and give rise to the growth of unhealthy bacteria in the intestines.

It looks like all around the bacteria levels are going down. Nature is repairing itself.

By evolving in an environment of antibiotic production, incredibly resilient bacteria must develop diverse ways to survive or resist the toxic antimicrobial compounds produced by their neighbors.

They wanted to hold off on the results because they are confusing. Usually, the indicator bacteria are consistent with each other: Either they're both up or they're both down.

The bacteria has also been found in pregnant women and women who have had medical abortions. There are a lot of scientific questions.

The bacteria gets in their mouth and it sits there. It's nasty. But humans are not on their dinner list.

The bacteria causing the disease was spread through a very vulnerable population of elderly residents with tragic results.

Thomas Ryan

The FDA and the CDC cultured Gram-negative bacteria out of bags that were never opened here. It was impossible for us to get anything into those bags. They took the bags away from us whole.

It's due to the damage you incur by having the bacteria in your brain, and by your own inflammatory (swelling) response.

For example, the influenza virus is grown either in a chicken embryo or a cell culture grown in situ. After the bacteria or virus has grown, the next step is to purify it by physical separation, for example, by filtration, which can be either a chemical or biological process.

E. B. White

It's not that there's a certain temperature at which food becomes good or bad. It's just the higher the temperature, the greater the chance of any bacteria that could have gotten into it will grow.

It looks very unlikely that the substance contains any bacteria of any significant pathological significance.

Martin Rees

It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

Desks are really bacteria cafeterias. They?re breakfast buffets, lunch tables, and snack bars as we spend more and more hours at the office.

Harvey V. Fineberg

At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.

These unlucky women had this bacteria hanging around and it climbed up into their uterus and set up housekeeping.

This is a very interesting point, so what we ended up doing for exactly that reason was we collected sand in areas that had no contact with sewage. What we found was the fecal bacteria count in that sand was actually zero, whereas in areas that was actually exposed to the sewage we were finding incredibly high fecal bacteria densities.

Good reporting is one of our goals. The other is for hospitals to stop infecting people. The first line of defense is wash those hands, clean the stethoscope, clean the food tray, where you know bacteria are living.

If you don't get bacteria in your nose, mouth or eyes, it doesn't get in the body.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Nathan Wolfe

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.