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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
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New York City
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Jonas Edward Salk
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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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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 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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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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[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
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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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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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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 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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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
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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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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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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