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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Jonas Salk

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Jonas Salk
Age: 80 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 28
Died: 1995
Died: June 23
Biologist
Epidemiologist
Immunologist
Inventor
Medical Researcher
Physician
Virologist
New York City
New York
Jonas Edward Salk
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.
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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.
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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.
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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
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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.
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My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.
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I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.
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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.
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What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.
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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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