The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. — Jonas Salk Copy Share
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. — Jonas Salk Copy Share
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. — Jonas Salk Copy Share
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an… — Jonas Salk Copy Share
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe. — Jonas Salk Copy Share
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. — Jonas Salk Copy Share
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… — Jonas Salk Copy Share
As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like,… — Jonas Salk Copy Share
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of… — Jonas Salk Copy Share
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. — Jonas Salk Copy Share
I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And… — Jonas Salk Copy Share
Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. — Jonas Salk Copy Share
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new… — Jonas Salk Copy Share
