With the removal of the danger lurking in infectious diseases and epidemics, society can face a better future, can prepare for a time when other diseases not now subject to therapy will be brought under control. Let us hope that in contributing the antibiotics, the microbes will have done their part to make the world a better place to live in.

Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes in 1952, Nobel banquet speech for award received in 1952, Nobel Foundation. Stockholm, Sweden. 1953