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Edward Jenner: The joy I...

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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox] was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Edward Jenner, (May 17 1749-1823), English physician; He discovered and named the process of vaccination against smallpox, 1796; paved the way for the science of immunology.


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