Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously,… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition.… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you… — 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
