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> [I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/i-think-of-evolution-as-an-error-making-and-error-correcting-process/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

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> [Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/life-is-an-error-making-and-an-error-correcting-process/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

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> [I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/i-see-the-triumph-of-good-over-evil-as-a-manifestation-of-the-error/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

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## Other authors on Correcting

## More by Jonas Salk

> [Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/hope-lies-in-dreams-in-imagination-and-in-the-courage-of-those-who/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/nothing-happens-quite-by-chance-it-s-a-question-of-accretion-of/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/it-is-courage-based-on-confidence-not-daring-and-it-is-confidence/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/when-things-get-bad-enough-then-something-happens-to-correct-the/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/reply-when-questioned-on-the-safety-of-the-polio-vaccine-he-developed/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/i-have-had-dreams-and-i-have-had-nightmares-but-i-have-conquered-my/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [Are we being good ancestors?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/are-we-being-good-ancestors/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/my-life-is-pretty-well-at-peace-and-the-profession-is-more-of-an/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/as-a-child-i-was-not-interested-in-science-i-was-merely-interested-in/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [“There is no patent. Could you patent the Sun?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/there-is-no-patent-could-you-patent-the-sun/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/my-ambition-was-to-bring-to-bear-on-medicine-a-chemical-approach-i/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/the-worst-tragedy-that-could-have-befallen-me-was-my-success-i-knew/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/i-look-upon-ourselves-as-partners-in-all-of-this-and-that-each-of-us/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/risks-i-like-to-say-always-pay-off-you-learn-what-to-do-or-what-not/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

> [If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/if-humankind-would-accept-and-acknowledge-this-responsibility-and/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

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