All Jonas Salk Quotes
- 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… All
- 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… Ambition
- What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. Discovery
- 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… All
- 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… Approach
- A good parent gives their child roots and wings. Child
- 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… Accept
- 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… Active
- When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months. Children
- Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. Destroy
- Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical. Charlotte
- Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it. Dream
- I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. Cancer
- There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. Birth
- Are we being good ancestors? Ancestor
- The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. Befallen
- 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… Believe
- 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… Bad
- 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… All
- Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. Accretion