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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

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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
Overcame
Nightmares
Nightmare
Dreams
Dream

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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 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 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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I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
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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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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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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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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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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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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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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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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from 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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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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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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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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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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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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