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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.
Jonas Salk
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Jonas Salk
Age: 80 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 28
Died: 1995
Died: June 23
Biologist
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New York City
New York
Jonas Edward Salk
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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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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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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
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Are we being good ancestors?
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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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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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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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[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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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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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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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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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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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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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
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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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