Quotes About The Discovery Of Penicillin

#1. (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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Jerusalem, 61 AD Mariamne dipped her reed pen into the shallow wooden bowl of charcoal and olive oil ink and began writing her last entry on the parchment page in front of her.

Jerry Harber

#5. It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

Joyce Maynard

#6. We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it.

Nick Saban

#7. So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

William Wilberforce

#8. You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

Chad Harbach

#9. I don't want to be a senator.

Deval Patrick

#10. Why would a football fan let a few flubbed minutes at the end of the game ruin three hours of bliss? Because a football game is a story. And in stories, endings matter.

Atul Gawande

#11. There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

Elizabeth I