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“The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.” ― Louis Pasteur
"All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology." ― Lynn Margulis
"If these d'Hérelle bodies [filterable Viruses] were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which to attack the gene problem. They are filterable, to some extent isolatable, can be handled in test-tubes, and their properties, as shown by their effects on the bacteria, can then be studied after treatment. It would be very rash to call these bodies genes, and yet at present we must confess that there is no distinction known between the genes and them. Hence we can…
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