Daily quote by Microbiology

• Since microorganisms play major roles in maintaining earth's life-support systems, we need to be especially careful about tinkering with decomposition and other recycling processes. ...
  What is needed now is a reasonable procedure for assessment at the ecosystem level that leans to the side of caution when there are a lot of unknowns. Accordingly, there is urgent need for increased support for research in environmental microbiology (that is, microbial ecology) and ecosystem science.
  • Eugene Odum, (1985) . "Biotechnology and the Biosphere". Science 229 (4720). DOI:10.1126/science.229.4720.1338.