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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 hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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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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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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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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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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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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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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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 pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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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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