ABSTRACT
The microorganism is always right, your friend, and a sensitive partner; there are no stupid microorganisms; microorganisms can and will do anything; they are smarter, wiser, more energetic than chemists, engineers, and others; if you take care of your microbial friends, they will take care of your future (Perlman 1980). These fi ve laws of the distinguished biotechnologist David Perlman seem to be meant as an amusing humanization of microbes to elicit from the audience a sympathetic sentiment for microbiology and industrial microbiology in particular. However we fi nd the settled belief in the potency of the microbial cell. It could also be understood as an advice to the microbiologist, never to stop seeking the appropriate approach to make use of the inconceivable spectrum of capabilities concealed in the microbial world.
