"I am very grateful for the recognition I have received, but the real credit belongs to the mould."

"I had no idea that I would be involved in such a great discovery. It was purely accidental."

"The discovery of penicillin was a series of small observations, not a single eureka moment."

"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 suppose that was exac…"

"The future of chemotherapy lies in the intelligent use of these new antibacterial agents."