"In one milliliter (one fifth of a teaspoon) of seawater, there's a million bacteria and 10 million viruses. In the air in this room we've been doing the air genome project - all of you just during the course of this hour will be breathing in at atleast 10,000 different bacteria, and may be 100,000 viruses.... So you're actually exchanging DNA with your neighbors without even doing it intentionally right now.... This is the world of biology that we live in, that we don't see, where evolution takes place on a minute-to-minute basis.... The air that we breathe comes from these organisms. The future of the planet rests with these organisms.... if you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet. This is the planet of the bacteria."
-Craig Venter
-Craig Venter
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