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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
Inventor
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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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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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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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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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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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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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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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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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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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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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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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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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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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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