Time Quote by Anne E. Maczulak

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans]…

— Hans Selye

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and…

— Alexander Fleming

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

— Ronald Reagan

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than…

— Sean Chercover

“Yeah. Penicillin. You know that? It's made of mold. Pretty cool huh, how one kind of rottenness can cure another kind of rottenness.”

— David Krae

“If you have to choose between living in an isolated, uncaring community with plentiful penicillin or a very warm and loving world without drugs,…

— Jennifer Wright

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's…

— Anthony Fauci

“It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon…

— Carl Zimmer

“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. In its mundane form, the methodical instinct prevails and the…

— Thomas Lewis Fari Amini and Richard Lannon

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

— Alexander Fleming

“I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home,…

— John Fowles

“The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.”

— Jerry J.C. Veit