You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn’t survive without them. Bonnie Bassler Read Quote
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see. Bonnie Bassler Read Quote
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful. Bonnie Bassler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, ‘That can’t be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?’ And that’s the best kind of scientist because they’re filled with this self-doubt. And if I’m going to be honest, that’s who I am. And it’s what drives me. Bonnie Bassler Read Quote
It’s incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do. Bonnie Bassler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
