Waksman Quotes

#1. The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Selman Waksman

#2. In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

Selman Waksman

#3. In the development of antibiotics, the soil microbiological population has contributed more than its share. It is to the soil that the microbiologists came in search of new antibacterial agents.

Selman Waksman

#4. The first true antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our department in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was soon crystallized, and its chemical and biological properties were established.

Selman Waksman

#5. The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.

Selman Waksman

#6. It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.

Aden Young

#7. The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

Horace Mann

#8. Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

Moby

#9. Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Henry Miller

#10. I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

Lana Turner

#11. It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#12. I'm already starting to miss him
us
and I don't even know his name.

Sarah Hina

#13. A thing when I was writing the movie [The hateful eight] was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.

Selman Waksman

#15. From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Selman Waksman

#16. It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.

Selman Waksman

#17. Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Kodo Sawaki

#18. Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.

Selman Waksman

#19. What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you?

Ricky Hatton