Quotes About Alexander Fleming

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

Alexander Fleming

#2. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

Alber Elbaz

#3. 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

#4. Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

Alexander Fleming

#5. Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

Alexander Fleming

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

Alexander Fleming

#7. Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Werner Heisenberg

#8. The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Alexander Fleming

#9. To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.

Robert Duvall

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

Alexander Fleming

#11. A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

Raghu Rai

#12. One sometimes finds what one is not looking for

Alexander Fleming

#13. I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

Yasmin Paige

#14. There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Marcus Garvey

#15. 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

#16. Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

Van Morrison

#17. Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

Alexander Fleming

#18. 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 to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

Alexander Fleming

#19. Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
But I like an orgy, once in a while.

Ogden Nash

#20. (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

#21. 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

#22. This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Susan B. Anthony