Bonnie Bassler quotes
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“You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.”
-- Bonnie BasslerSource : "How bacteria 'talk'". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.
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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.”
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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.”
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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 thought bacteria were going to become resistant.”
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“My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.”
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“Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.”
-- Bonnie Bassler
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“I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.”
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“I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.”
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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