42 Quotes by Bonnie Bassler

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

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.

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

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

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

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

You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.