Nikola Tesla

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Inventor

Amanda de Cadenet

With the combination of spending a fair amount of time on planes, having twins that go to elementary school, and generally living a lifestyle that is pretty high-stress, I have been known to run myself down quite easily, so I am pretty much a petri dish for germs, colds, and flus.

English Photographer

Kanika Dhillon

I don't think in genres. Once I get a germ of an idea I wait for it to die! And if it refuses to die and keeps coming back, I start thinking more about it. Then come the world and the characters. I wait to get bored and if I don't get bored- then I start building on them.

Indian Author

Jane Smiley

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

American Writer

Laura Wade

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

British Playwright

Buzz Aldrin

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

American Astronaut

Orison Swett Marden

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

Laurence Fishburne

I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

American Actor

Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Irish Poet

Jim Lehrer

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

American Journalist

Use 'germ' to discuss illness and hygiene, often in healthcare or daily cleanliness conversations.

Health Context

'Germ' usually implies something harmful; rarely used for beneficial organisms.

Negative Connotation

Germs are not visible, so people often talk about them when explaining unseen risks.

Invisible Threat

Often used metaphorically to describe the initial phase that grows or expands into something larger.

Metaphorical Growth

Ideal for expressing the early and formative stage of creative ideas or concepts.

Creative Beginnings

Refer to 'germ' in the context of whole foods to emphasize nutritional benefits.

Nutrition Mention

In botanical contexts, distinguishing the 'germ' as a component of seeds or grains is important.

Botanical Specificity

The word 'germ' can often be seen in scholarly articles related to plant biology and agriculture.

Academic Use

 organisms more mild and I'm really talking to begin with as I said about diarrheal disease organisms and the focus when I'm talking about the diarrheal organisms as well as the focus when I'm talking about any organisms that cause acute infectious disease is to think about the problem from a germs

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 to get that into germ plasm that can go into chickens that can produce passenger pigeon squabs that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down,

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 and typhoid public health authorities realized was spread by fecal matter from sick people going into drinking water i know it's really disgusting but that is what was happening some of the early products that were sold to protect people from those germs included water filters and plumbing

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 involving many different types of immune cells— some of which seem to protect the fetus from attack by other immune cells. The body also creates an antibacterial plug made of mucus on the cervix, which keeps germs away and stays sealed until labor. As a pregnancy progresses,

The surprising effects...

 and they proposed that it was actually these germs that cause diseases, hence the name germ theory. Though most people held onto their assumptions and strongly resisted this theory, its supporters were determined to prove them wrong

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 There's plenty of room for moral passion once we've got the facts and can figure out the best thing to do. And, as with germs, the trick is not to try to annihilate them. You will never annihilate the germs.

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 What also aided in the transmission of the disease was the lack of medical knowledge. For most of human history, the cause of illnesses, germs, was unknown, making sicknesses like the plague a mystery.

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 The bacteria in our guts can break down food the body can't digest, produce important nutrients, regulate the immune system, and protect against harmful germs. We don't yet have the blueprint

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 that's the sample he's got it the germs caught in the dish will help reveal more information about the health of the sperm whale population here well done now continue yeah yeah okay and with

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 and I suspect that germ came into your life because you have said that in your life death and life and the creativity that came out of great suffering are

Germ

A small organism that can make you sick when it enters the body.

The smallest, earliest stage of something from which it develops.

A part of a grain or seed.

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