Carl Sagan - Arthur Guiterman - Bertrand Russell - Prince Philip -
In the realm of one-celled animals they are giants, the whales of the microbial world. Each contains about four hundred million bits in its DNA. The equivalent of about eighty volumes of about five hundred pages each. Professor Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, Cosmos: The Persistence of Memory, 1979
Recall from Time’s abysmal chasm
That piece of primal protoplasm
The First Amoeba, strangely splendid
From whom we’re all of us descended. Arthur Guiterman, Ode to the Amoeba
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. Bertrand Russell
I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. Prince Philip