"While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie."

-- Edward Jenner

#Discovery Quotes #Vaccines Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.129, Spiegel & Grau
“People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.”
“More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.”
“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?”
“We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.”
“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.”
“There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.”
“The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.”

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