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Are we being good ancestors?
Jonas Salk
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Jonas Salk
Age: 80 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 28
Died: 1995
Died: June 23
Biologist
Epidemiologist
Immunologist
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Medical Researcher
Physician
Virologist
New York City
New York
Jonas Edward Salk
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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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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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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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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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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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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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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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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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
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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 overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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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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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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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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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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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 worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
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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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