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Immunologist Inspirational Quotes (208)

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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 do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined here, to expound is to expose.
Peter Medawar
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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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[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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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others smoking is what you do for yourself.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
Peter Medawar
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.
Laurie Glimcher
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Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.
Peter Medawar
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In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.
Peter Medawar
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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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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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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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Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.
Peter Medawar
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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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The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
Peter Medawar
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Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.
Gerald Edelman
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Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.
Ludwik Fleck
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In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.
Elie Metchnikoff
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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