Penicillin Quotes

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

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.

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

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.

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