Bonnie Bassler

Quotes

• “Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered...”
• “My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm su...”
• “I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental pr...”
• “I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, an...”
• “When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved eno...”
• “If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will ...”