"The goal of scientists is you hope that……" — Bonnie Bassler

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working… - Bonnie Bassler

"The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the moment."

— Bonnie Bassler

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15 Quotes by Bonnie Bassler

Bonnie Bassler has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're…
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one…
Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up…
In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize…
As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had…
I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and…
I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the…
Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10…
Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of…
I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out…

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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The… — Bono
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it… — Harry Browne

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