So, okay, I’m not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses. Bonnie Bassler Read Quote
By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it’s not even close. Bonnie Bassler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
