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Bonnie Bassler

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 life

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.

— Bonnie Bassler you

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.

— Bonnie Bassler people

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.

— Bonnie Bassler

What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.

— Bonnie Bassler night

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

— Bonnie Bassler success

I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud.

— Bonnie Bassler thoughts

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

— Bonnie Bassler man

Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

— Bonnie Bassler you

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.

— Bonnie Bassler art

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

— Bonnie Bassler

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

— Bonnie Bassler sports

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

— Bonnie Bassler genius

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

— Bonnie Bassler live

In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.

— Bonnie Bassler thinking

All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.

— Bonnie Bassler food

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.

— Bonnie Bassler people

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.

— Bonnie Bassler change

I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

— Bonnie Bassler art

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 that moment.

— Bonnie Bassler hope

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

— Bonnie Bassler love

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

— Bonnie Bassler man

Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.

— Bonnie Bassler time

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

— Bonnie Bassler time

Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

— Bonnie Bassler live

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