Penicillin Quotes

27 quotes by 21 authors

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words,… — James Buchan
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. — Muhammad Ali
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. — Alexander Fleming
Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make… — Muhammad Ali
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two… — Gertrude B. Elion
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent… — William Wardell
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… — Alexander Fleming
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because… — Hans Selye
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there… — C. Northcote Parkinson
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer
If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures… — Corbin Bernsen
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… — Alexander Fleming
MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do. — Ann Shulgin
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex. — Christopher Bram
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. — Alexander Fleming
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,… — Thomas Merton
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds… — Carly Simon
I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it. — Ronald Reagan

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