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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
Wisest
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Survival
Evolution
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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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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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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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I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
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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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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
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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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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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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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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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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 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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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
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My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.
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