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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.
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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Physician
Virologist
New York City
New York
Jonas Edward Salk
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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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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
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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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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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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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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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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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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