“Steve Rogers: [after being injected in the arm] That wasn't so bad. Abraham Erskine: That was penicillin.”— Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus, Steve Rogers / Captain America, Chris Evans, imdb.com
“This is a sign of an active mind. Lincoln, Einstein, Freud - all geniuses who drew inspiration from chaos in their environs. Without Andrew Fleming's reluctance to wash petrie dishes, the world wouldn't have penicillin, would it?”— Liz Friedman, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.com
“(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, amazon.com
“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 te…”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“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 th…”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.”— Alexander Fleming, en.wikiquote.org