Jonas Salk Quotes

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• It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
• I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
• As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and…
• Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to…
• The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
• What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in…
• Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
• Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival…
• Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
• If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
• It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
• I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities,…
• Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
• I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.
• IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY.
• Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
• If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from…
• There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

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