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It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.

Alexander Fleming's Popular Quotes

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that…

- Alexander Fleming

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriologic…

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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

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

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

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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 brea…

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Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

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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 the enterprise,…

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Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

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