“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.”
— Jonathan Eisen
Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes
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“Everybody focuses on the [microbes] that kill us.”
— Jonathan Eisen
Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes
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“We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells. … We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.”
— Jonathan Eisen
Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes
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