Bonnie Bassler Quotes

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

  Bonnie Bassler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

  "How bacteria 'talk'". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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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 into that tube at the moment.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Goal, Moments, Scientist

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

  Bonnie Bassler

  Dark, Bacteria, Humans

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• When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

  Bonnie Bassler

  War, Quality, Antibiotics

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

  Bonnie Bassler

  Rocks, Iron, Bacteria

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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.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Successful, Thinking, Keys

  Q&A, www.pbs.org. January 16, 2007.

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

  Bonnie Bassler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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