Accidents Quote by Hans Selye

“commented on the future of antibiotic drugs. Perhaps, Fleming mused, a time would come when anyone with real or perceived illness could get penicillin.…

— Anne E. Maczulak

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

— Ronald Reagan

(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

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

— Alexander Fleming

“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

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends…

— Howard Florey

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 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

“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

“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

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.”

— Terry Pratchett