Coli Quotes

Fred Hoyle and Wickramasinghe have argued that microorganims fill up the whole of space. One finds dust and biological molecules between stars. Why not microorganisms? They assumed in one example, E. coli filling up interstellar space and then they calculated how much the absorption of light at different wavelengths from the E. coli model would be. They showed that the extinction curve i.e. absorption curve, was precisely followed for some infra red source. So their argument was that these micro organisms must exist. (Jayant Narlikar)

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

Ann Hood

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Anthony Fauci

The two-person iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework.

Robert Axelrod