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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
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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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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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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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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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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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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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Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.
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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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Are we being good ancestors?
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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 overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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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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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
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