Quotes Tagged "microbiology"

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely.
— Emma Thompson The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
Tags: women-scientists, wives, science, neglect, microbiology, married-couples, lack-of-interest, husbands, disparate-interests, cholesterol, biology
Scientists working on the origin of life deserve a lot of credit; they have attacked the problem by experiment and calculation, as science should. And although the experiments have not turned out as many hoped, through their efforts we now have a clear idea of the staggering difficulties that would face an origin of life by natural chemical processes. In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.
Tags: science, microbiology, evolution
For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, bacteria are giants. You could line up a thousand viruses alongside that same grain of salt.
Tags: wonders-of-nature, virus, science, microbiology, bacteria