If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it..

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything..

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing..

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat..

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).

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

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one..

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are..

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs..

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'..

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered..

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue..