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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
Favors
Survival
Evolution

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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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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
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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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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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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
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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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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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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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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
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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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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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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
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The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
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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 think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
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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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I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
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