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Microbiologist Inspirational Quotes (225)

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Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical particular conciousness. Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.
Ludwik Fleck
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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Louis Pasteur
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It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.
Rene Dubos
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The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
Daniel Nathans
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The naturally colored products aren't as bright as the synthetically colored products, they're not as attractive to consumers. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that consumers simply would get used to very quickly.
Michael F. Jacobson
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Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.
Charles P. Gerba
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Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible it always has the last word.
Louis Pasteur
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Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.
Michael F. Jacobson
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur
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There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.
Elie Metchnikoff
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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
Lynn Margulis
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The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.
Edward Forbes
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What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.
David Baltimore
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I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.
Louis Pasteur
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[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.
Edward Forbes
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Everybody has to learn for the first time.
Joshua Lederberg
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As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
Daniel Nathans
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
J. Michael Bishop
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Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.
Louis Pasteur
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All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
Lynn Margulis
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And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
Daniel Nathans
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
Louise Slaughter
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All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
Lynn Margulis
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The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.
Louis Pasteur
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