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

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.

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.

..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.

Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.