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Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy. -- Alexander Fleming
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex. -- Christopher Bram
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. -- Alexander Fleming
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. -- Katherine Dunn
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. -- Muhammad Ali
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. -- Douglas Coupland
If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS. -- Corbin Bernsen
Nature makes penicillin; I just found it. -- Alexander Fleming
I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin. -- Rodney Dangerfield
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. -- Alexander Fleming
MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do. -- Ann Shulgin
(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
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. -- Thomas Merton
In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. -- Muhammad Ali
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
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins, And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness. But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me. -- Termanology
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
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development. -- William Wardell
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date... -- C. Northcote Parkinson
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.' -- Hans Selye
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. -- Robert Robinson
Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods. -- Howard Florey
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects. -- Clive Thompson
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. -- James Buchan
Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed. -- Tom Wolfe
I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it. -- Ronald Reagan
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you. -- Muhammad Ali
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. -- Peter Singer
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. -- Erma Bombeck

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