Quotes About Microbiology

#1. 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.

John Collison

#2. 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.

Randy Schekman

#3. 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.

Carl Sagan

#4. Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

Michael Specter

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Kathy Reichs

#7. It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.

Selman Waksman

#8. Disgust is intuitive microbiology

Steven Pinker

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

Nathan Myhrvold

#10. The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts - the cells.

Theodor Schwann

#11. All lives have an equal value.

Melinda Gates

#12. You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

Bruce Schneier

#13. I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.

Larry Fitzgerald

#14. Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about whether it's supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.

Ann Leckie

#16. Before you judge me, look in the mirror.

Whoopi Goldberg

#17. If you were mine, I'd never willingly put you in a situation where you'd be in danger. I'd lay my life on the line to protect you, not put you in harm's way while I sat tight and waited for you to come to me.

Victoria Gray

#18. Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

Tatyana Ali

#19. I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

K'naan

#20. Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Joseph O'Connor

#21. Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs' vital organs the wrong color.

Sam Kean

#22. He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

Kim Harrison

#23. We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

Matt McGorry