When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacte…

- Bonnie Bassler

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

- Bonnie Bassler

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

- 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

[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things to…

- Bonnie Bassler

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

- Bonnie Bassler

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

- Bonnie Bassler