“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.”
— Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"
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“[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.”
— Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"
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