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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

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Jonas Salk
Age: 80 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 28
Died: 1995
Died: June 23
Biologist
Epidemiologist
Immunologist
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Medical Researcher
Physician
Virologist
New York City
New York
Jonas Edward Salk
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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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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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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When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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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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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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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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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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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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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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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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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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
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