Ed Yong Quotes & Sayings

Forget Orson Welles, and heed Walt Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."5 — Ed Yong

Speaking of palms, your right hand shares just a sixth of its microbial species with your left hand.19 — Ed Yong

Within 24 hours of moving into a new place we overwrite it with our own microbes, turning it into a reflection of ourselves. — Ed Yong

As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake. — Ed Yong

The mere presence of a guitar in someone's bedroom doesn't make them Slash. — Ed Yong