If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone.
I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.
I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci ... In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful... for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated.
Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.
Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.
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...
