Jonas Salk

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

— Jonas Salk

What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out…

— Jonas Salk

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must…

— Jonas Salk

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

— Jonas Salk

“What makes your heart leap?”

— Jonas Salk

IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY.

— Jonas Salk

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

— Jonas Salk

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

— Jonas Salk

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated…

— Jonas Salk

As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process…

— Jonas Salk

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

— Jonas Salk

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

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and…

— Jonas Salk

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

— Jonas Salk

“I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”

— Jonas Salk

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

— Jonas Salk

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

— Jonas Salk

“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the…

— Jonas Salk

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

— Jonas Salk

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible…

— Jonas Salk

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

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something…

— Jonas Salk

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

— Jonas Salk

“Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions…

— Jonas Salk