"It is the lone worker who makes the……" — Alexander Fleming
"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual."
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Alexander Fleming
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15 Quotes by Alexander Fleming
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If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
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Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I…
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
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It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had…
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In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious…
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It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different…
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928,…
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For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched…
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(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a…
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Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience…
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