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Alexander Fleming Quotes

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“The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.”
— Alexander Fleming, Globalization In India: Contents And Discontents
Tagged: unprepared, Prepare, preparation, Mind, Thinking, Opportunity, Chance, see, Vision, realization
“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, thought, and perception of an individual.”
— Alexander Fleming, Wikiquote.org: Alexander Fleming
Tagged: Individual, worker, Person, advance, subject, Team, Teamwork, idea, enterprise, Thought, Perception
“The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism. I hope this evil can be averted.”
— Alexander Fleming, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Tagged: thoughtless, Treatment, medication, Medicine, medical, Responsibility, Death, Life, infection, disease, Organism, Resistance, prevention, cure
“(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, Psychetypes: a new way of exploring personality
Tagged: Discovery, penicillin, Bacteria, Medicine, medical, medical field, bacteriological, Problem, accident, fortunate, occurence, Academic
“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, Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth
Tagged: microbes, Medicine, Discovery, Study, Knowledge, acquire, Experience, find
“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, Miracle Drugs and the New Age of Medicine
Tagged: surprise, astonishing, Distance, Growth, Medicine, medical, Study, Discovery, medical field, colonies , lysis, Bacteria
“For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new...”
— Alexander Fleming, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors
Tagged: Birth, New, Beginning, Ordinary, Extraordinary
“Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.”
— Alexander Fleming, Your Key to a Healthy Heart; the Suppressed Record of Vitamin E
Tagged: penicillin, Medicine, Discovery, quack, crazy, Belief, disbelief
“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 valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.”
— Alexander Fleming, Health and society: A documentary history of medicine(A Continuum book)
Tagged: publiation, antibacterial, Medicine, medical, Study, Observation, Bacteria, penicillin, chemical, paper
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