Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease.

- Alan Huffman

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.

- Bonnie Bassler

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

- Bonnie Bassler

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

- Bonnie Bassler

You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.

- Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

- Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

- Bonnie Bassler

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

- Craig Venter

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

- Yahya Jammeh