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“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 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

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

— Alexander Fleming

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…

— William Wardell

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

There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective.…

— Marcia Angell

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

— Henry Markram

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.

— Maia Szalavitz

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous…

— Russell B. Long

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

Even to this day, the government, the FDA is refusing to use the sophisticated biotechnology to evaluate the contaminants in the vaccines such as…

— Leonard Horowitz