The bacteria are only the most primitive, and adaptable-to-the-primitive beings that are at present known. They may have had — may still have — antecedents even more hardy and fitted to digest the raw stuff of the universe, perhaps even the interstellar calcium that is one of the recent discoveries of the watchers of the skies.


An Almanac for Moderns - November Thirtieth (p. 278), G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1935

Donald Culross Peattie Quotes

The bacteria are only the most primitive, and adaptable-to-the-primitive beings that are at present known. They may have had — may still have —...

The bacteria are only the most primitive, and adaptable-to-the-primitive beings that are at present known. They may have had — may still have —...

The bacteria are only the most primitive, and adaptable-to-the-primitive beings that are at present known. They may have had — may still have —...

The bacteria are only the most primitive, and adaptable-to-the-primitive beings that are at present known. They may have had — may still have —...