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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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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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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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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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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
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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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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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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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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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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
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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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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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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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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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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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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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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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