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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
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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Evolution
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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.
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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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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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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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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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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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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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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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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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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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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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If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
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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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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
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