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

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.

[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.

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.

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.

To appear in heaven, let yourself disappear amongst the beauties of nature!

All life forms add their own colour in the world. It is important we embrace all the colours with equal value.

Choices are made before explanations, whether or not we care to know it.

Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Greatness has entered the ring! Thank you very much you may bow at will!