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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

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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
Immune
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Medicine
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Mind
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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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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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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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
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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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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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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.
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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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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 worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
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