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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
Jonas Salk
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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
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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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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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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
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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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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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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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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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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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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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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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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
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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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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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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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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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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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