All Bonnie Bassler Quotes
- You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial. Bacterial
- [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it… Allows
- The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the… Bigger
- I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful. Creative
- When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to… Antibiotics
- Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to… Bacteria
- In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that… Always Thinking
- As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets. Animals
- I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable. Creative
- I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it… Amazing
- Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in… Bacteria
- Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every… Bacteria
- I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do… Alive
- Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see. Bacteria
- I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team. Athlete