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Alexander Fleming Quotes

1881–1955 Scotland

Scotland
Academics
Biologists
Botanists
Nobel laureates

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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.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Fleming (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.