Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes. —
Paul De Kruif

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a
microbe as by a trolley car. —
James Walsh

As soon as we pass through the birth canal we begin to become 90 percent
microbe. —
Raphael Kellman

Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic
microbe. —
Elie Metchnikoff

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the
microbe and its host. —
Charles V. Chapin

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest
microbe. —
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

The
microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. —
Hilaire Belloc

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a
microbe puts it out. —
Antonio Porchia