Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
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(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
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
Never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. Alexander Fleming
Never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. Alexander Fleming
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. Alexander Fleming
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did. Alexander Fleming
I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. Alexander Fleming
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. Alexander Fleming
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
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 enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. Alexander Fleming
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 enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
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
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.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. Alexander Fleming
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Alexander Fleming
The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops.
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. Alexander Fleming
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.
