Bacteriologist Quotes by Alexander Fleming

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Alexander Fleming has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic…
• 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…
• 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…
• In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of…
• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team,…

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