"Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years……" — Alexander Fleming

"Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack."

— Alexander Fleming

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15 Quotes by Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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