Edward Jenner - Exhibit marking his first experimental vaccination against the disease.
Dr Edward Jenner Museum - Housed in his former home the museum fills in the biography of the man. Also included are opening times and prices, brief career description, and links to pages about his discovery of smallpox vaccination.
BBC History - Edward Jenner - Brief biography of Jenner, and his pioneering anti-smallpox treatment which eventually led to global eradication of the disease. Links to more information about smallpox.
BBC Education - Edward Jenner - Brief article - Who was Edward Jenner, and what did he discover? Also general information about vaccines.
Founders of Science: Edward Jenner - Brief biography, and a facsimile of 'Inquiry' - his landmark contribution to the science of medicine and biology.
Edward Jenner - Biography. Also statistics of smallpox casualties in London in 1844.
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Jenner, Edward "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Jenner, Edward
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Jenner, Edward Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Jenner, Edward
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Jenner, Edward "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Jenner, Edward
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Jenner, Edward There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Jenner, Edward
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jenner, Edward Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Jenner, Edward
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Jenner, Edward The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Jenner, Edward
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Jenner, Edward I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jenner, Edward
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Jenner, Edward Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Jenner, Edward
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Jenner, Edward I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Jenner, Edward
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Jenner, Edward Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Jenner, Edward
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Jenner, Edward Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Jenner, Edward
