The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Alexander Fleming
- The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
- One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
- 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.
- 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.
- Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
- 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.
- 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.
- Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it’s not very scientific, but it helps.
- If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
- 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 (1881–1955) was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic. Born in Lochfield, Ayrshire, Fleming studied medicine at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, where he later became a researcher.
His groundbreaking discovery occurred in 1928, when he noticed that a mold called Penicillium notatum had contaminated a petri dish and killed surrounding bacteria. This observation led to the development of penicillin, which revolutionized medicine by providing an effective treatment for bacterial infections, saving countless lives.
Although Fleming’s discovery was initially overlooked, it gained significant attention during World War II, when penicillin was mass-produced to treat wounded soldiers. Fleming shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, who were instrumental in developing penicillin for widespread use. Fleming’s work laid the foundation for modern antibiotics.
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