Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by William Foege

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist William Foege.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

William Herbert Foege is an American physician and epidemiologist who is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s". From May 1977 to 1983, Foege served as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

American - Scientist | Born: March 12, 1936

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Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.

William Foege

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

William Foege

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.

William Foege

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege

Finally, develop tenacity and an optimistic outlook. It doesn't mean that everything will always work out or that you won't suffer. But pessimism seems to be designed to force you to suffer before the fact!

William Foege

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by William Foege

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