Jonas Salk Quotes

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• This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and…
• My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking…
• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
• I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for…
• In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so…
• A good parent gives their child roots and wings.
• 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…
• 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…
• When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
• Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
• Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.
• Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.
• I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
• There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
• Are we being good ancestors?
• The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
• I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think…
• 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 error-making…
• I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And so…
• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

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