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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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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
Cancer
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Pictured
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Virus
Viruses
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Cells

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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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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 worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
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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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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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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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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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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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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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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 see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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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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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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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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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