Alexander Fleming Quotes

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Destiny Fate Inspirational Life Myself
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Cure Happiness People Wine
Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Creation Myself Nature
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

Distance Growth Pursue Shadow Subject Surprise
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, 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

Discover Kill Life Medicine Myself Oneself Planning Revolution Wake Up
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it’s not very scientific, but it helps.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Alcohol Cold Goodness Help Science Whiskey
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Age Medicine Myself Time
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Hands Mindset Opportunity Preparation
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Cure Death Funny Life Medicine
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

Advancement Enterprise Ideas Lonely Perception Subject Work
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

Born Enough Knowledge Ordinary People Science
(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

Academic Accident Discover Problem Purity Success Win
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.
ALEXANDER FLEMING

Experience Happiness Knowledge Myself Play Rule

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