You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

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.

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.

All humans are important to God, so treat them all with love

The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

Money is just a way of keeping score.

We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.