Alexander Fleming Quotes

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• 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 may offer advice to the…
• 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 formerly been a well-grown colony…
• In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and…
• 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…
• It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally…
• One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to…
• For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged…
• (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
• Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
• I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to…
• Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
• I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the…

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