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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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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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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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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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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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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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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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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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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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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