Antibiotics Quote by Alexander Fleming

Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure…

— Heinrich Hertz

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

— David Mermin

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so…

— Anne Wojcicki

Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when…

— Cyrus S. Poonawalla

I felt if I didn't find anything, I would give up a scientific career altogether.

— Simon LeVay

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of…

— Jonas Salk

I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis...…

— Gertrude B. Elion

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my…

— Thomas A. Edison

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope,…

— Octavia Spencer

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could…

— George E. Brown, Jr

I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document…

— Steve-O