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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

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

“Even the majority of the cells in your body are microorganisms. They outnumber the cells of your body by 10 to 1. Those microbes…

— Bill Nye

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

[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because…

— Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

— Hesiod

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in…

— Michael Pollan

However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them with granular…

— Robert Koch

We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.

— Jonathan Eisen

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

— Caleb Scharf

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

Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how…

— Bonnie Bassler