Bonnie Bassler famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
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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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The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.
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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
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Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
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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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There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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