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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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Jonas Salk
Age: 80 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 28
Died: 1995
Died: June 23
Biologist
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New York City
New York
Jonas Edward Salk
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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
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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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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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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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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