Florey Quotes

#1. 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

#2. As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.

Wu Yi

#3. I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.

Howard Florey

#4. I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love

Rumi

#5. Scotland's a pretty place. I mean, as long as it ain't raining.

Boo Weekley

#6. The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

Kitty Burns Florey

#7. Beggars market their incapacity.

Mason Cooley

#8. My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

John Astin

#9. I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.

Lee Myung-bak

#10. Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail.

Kitty Burns Florey

#11. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

Fernando Pessoa

#12. Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.

Howard Florey

#13. Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.

Howard Florey

#14. I'm now 'Doctor' to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

Howard Florey