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.

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.

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

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’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.

Today is the only day in which we have any power.

When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

It’s ironic that those who lack self-confidence are often the ones who find it hardest to say no.

To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.