Bacteria Quote by Bonnie Bassler

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…

— Bonnie Bassler

It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people…

— Bonnie Bassler

“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They are expert…

— Ed Yong

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the…

— E. O. Wilson

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

— E. O. Wilson

“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their model organisms,…

— Hannah Landecker

If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get…

— Andrew H. Knoll

“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to…

— Ivan Illich

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells…

— Richard Dawkins

In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups…

— Bonnie Bassler

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…

— Michael Denton

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently…

— Marjory Stephenson