The discovery of penicillin was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence that happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
SIMILAR QUOTES
I don’t have an attitude problem. You have a problem with my attitude and that’s not my problem.
Good morning my friend. It’s a new day, I hope things get better…For this I did pray, may all of your problems be out on their way on this bright morning that starts this new day.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Life is a journey with problems to solve and lessons to learn but most of all…Experiences to enjoy. Good Morning.
Every bad karma has a remedy – compassion, meditation, chanting, and charity.
Karma has no problem getting back in touch with you when need be.
Sometimes you have to give people a taste of their own medicine.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
Brushing a girl’s hair behind her ear once a day will solve more problems than all those therapists and drugs.
I believe the gun is no solution to problems.
My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.
So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
My problem happens to be nearsightedness – inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
We must never neglect the patient’s own use of his symptoms.
It is possible that in ten years’ time penicillin itself will be a back number and will be replaced by something better. It is quite certain though that to displace penicillin any newcomer will have to be very, very good.
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
