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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

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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Life
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Error
Errors
Making

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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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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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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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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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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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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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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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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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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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Are we being good ancestors?
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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 pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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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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