Hope Quote by Edward Jenner

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

— Bill Gates

This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox…

— Peter C. Doherty

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are…

— Jenny McCarthy

“no smallpox vaccinations have been given worldwide since 1980, and in some countries like the USA, since the 1960s.”

— Michael B.A. Oldstone

We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

— Bill Gates

“One of the medical profession's greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed this claim…

— Anonymous

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term -…

— Paul Farmer

“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of…

— John Tilden M.D

“Vaccination has made smallpox extinct in the wild, as well as rinderpest, a relative of measles that affects cattle and buffalo, among others. Poliomyelitis,…

— Chris von Csefalvay

With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no…

— Bill Gates

“They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn’t flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool…

— Suzanne Collins

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

— Ogden Nash