Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.” — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do. — Ann Shulgin Copy Share Image
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Mother Earth is now stronger than She ever was before. It is almost like taking penicillin. You take it for a few… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But… — Termanology Copy Share Image
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination;… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber;… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
“Yeah. Penicillin. You know that? It's made of mold. Pretty cool huh, how one kind of rottenness can cure another kind of… — David Krae Copy Share Image
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I had pneumonia when I was 18 months old and I was given penicillin, which I was allergic to, and since then… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone. — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
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