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Virologist Inspirational Quotes (109)

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All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
Steven Hatfill
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We all need to begin thinking out of the box.
Peter Piot
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Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.
Albert Sabin
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Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.
Albert Sabin
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My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.
Albert Sabin
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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
Jonas Salk
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All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.
Harold E. Varmus
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I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
Joseph DeRisi
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The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
David Baltimore
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Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
Jonas Salk
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I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.
Steven Hatfill
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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
Jonas Salk
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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
Jonas Salk
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We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
Luc Montagnier
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[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
Jonas Salk
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A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.
Albert Sabin
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
Nathan Wolfe
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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
Jonas Salk
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The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
Albert Sabin
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In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.
Jonas Salk
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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Jonas Salk
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
Jonas Salk
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My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.
Jonas Salk
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I am a loyal American, and I love my country.
Steven Hatfill
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