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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
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Virologist
New York City
New York
Jonas Edward Salk
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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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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.
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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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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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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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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.
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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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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
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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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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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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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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If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.
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