The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light,… — Clive Thompson 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
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer… — 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
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 penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming 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
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. — Katherine Dunn 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 left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute… — Gertrude B. Elion 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
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
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
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
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
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
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
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence… — Sherman Alexie 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
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
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
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
