Bacteria

Stewart Brand Environmentalist, Author

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

"With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world"

Walter Gilbert Biochemist

"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality

"I would have bacteria and, yeah, it would grow in what we call the danger zone, which is typically between 40 and 140. But if I'm getting something out of my refrigerator where it's been basically pretty clean and I'm putting it on my counter, what exactly is going to happen in that amount of time that going into a hot oven isn't going to kill? Nothing."