Microbiology Quotes

• If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

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  Nathan Myhrvold

  Safety   Heat   Microbiology  

  2961

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

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  E. O. Wilson

  Dark   World   Matter  

  2189

• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

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  Randy Schekman

  School   Algae   Hours  

  1150

• My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

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  John Collison

  Mom   Brother   Dad  

  2297

• If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

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  Kathy Reichs

  School   Dna   Degrees  

  "Bones Inspiration Kathy Reichs Writes Episode 5.20 The Witch in the Wardrobe". Interview with Alan Orange, tvweb.com. May 4, 2010.

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• Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

  2475

• Disgust is intuitive microbiology

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  Steven Pinker

  Microbiology   Disgusting   Intuitive  

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.383, W. W. Norton & Company

  1063

• Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

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  Carl Sagan

  Successful   Meteorology   World  

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

  2036

• 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.

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  Edward Lawrie Tatum

  Mutants   Mutation   Culture  

  745

• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

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  Louis Pasteur

  Country   Science   Technology  

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

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  Hesiod

  People   Culture   Bacteria  

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