Alexander Fleming citáty
Alexander Fleming
Datum narození: 6. srpen 1881
Datum úmrtí: 11. březen 1955
Další jména: Alexander Sir Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming byl skotský lékař známý objevem baktericidních účinků lysozymu, ale hlavně získáním penicilinu z plísně Penicillium notatum.
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skotský misionář, lékař a cestovatelCitáty Alexander Fleming
„I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this—never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be—usually is, in fact—a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.“
— Alexander Fleming
biographyonline.net http://www.biographyonline.net/scientists/alex-fleming.html, Lecture at Harvard University. Quoted in Joseph Sambrook, David W. Russell, Molecular Cloning (2001), Vol. 1, 153.
„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
Reported in Dennis V. Parke, "Clinical Pharmacokinetics in Drug Safety Evaluation," in ATLA: Alternatives To Laboratory Animals https://books.google.it/books?id=WMZNAQAAIAAJ, vol. 22, no. 3, May/June 1994, p. 208.
The context is: "the present approach to drug safety evaluation, based on experimental animal studies, is known to be of questionable scientific veracity and has never been satisfactorily validated as an appropriate surrogate system for man. My former teacher, Sir Alexander Fleming, in his late years, chided me, saying …"
„One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.“
— Alexander Fleming
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„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.“
— Alexander Fleming
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„When I woke up just after dawn on September 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.“
— Alexander Fleming
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