Alive Quote by Bonnie Bassler

“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 with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?” quote by Bonnie Bassler — Download Open image

“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 with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?”

Bonnie Bassler

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We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.

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It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then…

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All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even…

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My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

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Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in…

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I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said,…

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By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

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We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why…

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You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see…

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If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they…

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Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

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You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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