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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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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
Inspirational
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Nightmares
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Optimism
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I overcame the 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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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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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.
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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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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.
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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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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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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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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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