"Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living……" — Bonnie Bassler
"Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria."
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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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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 are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10…
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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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