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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.
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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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 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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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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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
Jonas Salk
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.
Jonas Salk
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
Jonas Salk
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.
Jonas Salk
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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Are we being good ancestors?
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Jonas Salk
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.
Jonas Salk
Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
Jonas Salk
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.
Jonas Salk
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.
Jonas Salk
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.
Jonas Salk
There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
Jonas Salk
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
Jonas Salk
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
Jonas Salk
