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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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Sense
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Pictured
Like
Virus
Viruses
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Cells

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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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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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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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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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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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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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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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