Penicillin Quotes:

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Found, Penicillin

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

- Katherine Dunn

topic: Everyday, Research, Medical, Penicillin, Medical Research

(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

topic: Discovery, Triumph, Problem, Penicillin

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 years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...

- Gertrude B. Elion

source: "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants". Book by Susan A. Ambrose, Barbara B. Lazarus and Indira Nair, 1997.

topic: Men, Discovery, Years, Penicillin

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Luck, Sometimes, Penicillin, Antibiotics, Discovering The World

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: Spiritual, Men, Imagination, Penicillin, Propulsion

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Inspiring, Encouraging, Sports, Penicillin, Cassius

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Dark, Years, Age, Quacks, Penicillin

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new...

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Fall, Apples, People, Penicillin, Kettles

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 to cancer and AIDS.

- Corbin Bernsen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cancer, Vaccines, Space, Penicillin

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Wine, Sherry, Cures, Penicillin, Wine And Life

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Wine, People, Cures, Penicillin, Vineyards

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 speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci ... In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful... for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Powerful, May, Bacteria, Penicillin, Susceptible

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Men, Drug, Ignorant, Penicillin, Microbes

It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal 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.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Distance, Self, Growth, Penicillin

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.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Team, Discovery, Ideas, Penicillin

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 deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Discovery, Deep Thought, Might, Penicillin, Untrue

THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

- Max Frisch

topic: Death, Attitude, Wine, Penicillin, American Way Of Life

I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.

- Rodney Dangerfield

source: Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.178, Zondervan

topic: Thinking, Doctors, Wife, Penicillin

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 he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'

- Hans Selye

topic: Fall, Discovery, Doubt, Penicillin, Antibiotics

History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.

- Scott D. Anthony

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Real, Team, Character, Penicillin, 140 Character

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Senior, Long, Toasters, Penicillin, Senior Citizen

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from May 26, 2010

topic: Basketball, Fighting, Helping Others, Making A Difference In The World, Social Service

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.

- Alexander Fleming

source: "Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual". Book by Joseph Sambrook, Vol. 1, 153, 2001.

topic: Fate, Hands, Advice, Penicillin

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 regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.

- William Wardell

topic: People, Drug, Liberty, Penicillin, Toxicity

Go back to the '30s, '40s, '50s, and it was the discovery of heroic interventions, the ability to cure people with penicillin or do an operation to stop disease that was what saved the day. Primary care physicians couldn't do all that much that really demonstrated a difference. The people who control and work with you to control your blood pressure, they're not rewarded for doing that or to be innovative about doing that. So, the result is half of Americans have uncontrolled high blood pressure, despite seeing clinicians.

- Atul Gawande

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: People, Care, Heroic, Penicillin

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

- Peter Singer

topic: Men, Animal, Pigs, Penicillin, Toxicity

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 something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Knowledge, Science, College, Penicillin

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

- Sherman Alexie

source: FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jun 13, 2016

topic: Dream, Song, Wall, Penicillin, Fireplaces

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, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

- James Buchan

topic: Philosophy, Political, Bags, Penicillin, Plastic Bags

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, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Spiritual, Oneness, Soul, Penicillin

Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

- Termanology

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Chocolate, Penicillin, Realness

In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Life, Growth, Bread, Penicillin, Life Humor

MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.

- Ann Shulgin

topic: Giving Up, Drug, Penicillin

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

- Christopher Bram

topic: Sex, Gay, Pills, Penicillin

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

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Believe, Dark, Fda, Penicillin, Dark Ages

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 into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

- Carly Simon

topic: Discovery, Purple, Magic, Penicillin, Something Unexpected

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Tattoo, Anchors, World, Penicillin, Chicken Soup

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 was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date...

- C. Northcote Parkinson

topic: Kings, Ignorance, Law, Penicillin

Mother Earth is now stronger than She ever was before. It is almost like taking penicillin. You take it for a few days and then stop, and it makes the illness stronger. The Earth since nuclear experiments is very strong. Everything has been changing.

- Drunvalo Melchizedek

source: Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

topic: Mother, Strong, Earth, Penicillin