Quotes of: Penicillin Keyword

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram...

Alexander Fleming

The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.

Capricorn

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

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.

Muhammad Ali

Calloway: It had meningitis. They gave it some of Lime's penicillin. Terrible pity isn't it.

The Third Man

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

Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.

Florence Williams

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Douglas Coupland

Lt. Kinderman: If certain British doctors never asked "What is this fungus?" we wouldn't today have penicillin, correct?

The Exorcist

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

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

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 ...

Gertrude B. Elion

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

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 evol...

Tom Wolfe

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their i...

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December

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 b...

From Dream To Discovery: On Being A Scientist

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagin...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point ...

Love Is Mortal

Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd. No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens th...

Picture Me Gone