The Greatest Best Quotes By Alexander Fleming

Nature makes penicillin, I just found it. The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening, Newton saw an apple fall, James Watt watched a kettle boil, Röntgen fogged some photographic plates and these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new. If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. One sometimes finds what one is not looking for but I guess that was exactly what I did. Suggested remedy for the common cold a good gulp of whiskey at bedtime it's not very scientific, but it helps. 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 idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism, I hope this evil can be averted. 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 break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of. It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mold growth the staphycoccal colonies were undergoing lysis, what had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self, I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.