Act Quote by Bonnie Bassler

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

— Bonnie Bassler

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…

— Bonnie Bassler

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…

— Bonnie Bassler

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

— Bonnie Bassler

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…

— Bonnie Bassler

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

— Bonnie Bassler

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

— Bonnie Bassler

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…

— Bonnie Bassler

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…

— Bonnie Bassler

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

— Bonnie Bassler

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

— Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth…

— Bonnie Bassler