Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Lynn Bassler is an American molecular biologist. She has been a professor at Princeton University since 1994. In 2002, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
Bonnie Bassler quotes about
iron rocks bacteria
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.
dark bacteria humans
My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.
war quality world
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.
successful thinking keys
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
goal moments scientist
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.
motivation inspiration differences
[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.
motivation inspiration thinking
You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
learning science
I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.