[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.

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.

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

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.

If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

Involution always precedes evolution.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.