"Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model……" — 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 in you or on you than human cells."
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15 Quotes by Bonnie Bassler
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You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
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[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're…
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The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting…
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I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
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When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one…
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Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up…
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In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize…
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As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had…
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I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and…
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I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the…
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Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of…
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I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out…
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More Bacteria Quotes
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We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be…
— Noam Chomsky
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will…
— Hans Zinsser
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The…
— Isaac Asimov
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend…
— Martin Rees
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves…
— Hans Zinsser
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
— E. O. Wilson
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Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species,…
— H. Bentley Glass
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However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or…
— Robert Koch
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial…
— Unknown Author
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It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only…
— Marjory Stephenson
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Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must…
— Marjory Stephenson
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