Jonas Salk Quote by John Abramson

“When Jonas Salk, a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, found it and developed the first polio vaccine in 1952, he did not patent…

— Naomi Klein

“Who owns the patent on this vaccine?' 'Well, the people, I would say. There is not patent. Could you patent the sun?”

— 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

“There is no patent. Could you patent the Sun?”

— Jonas Salk

The people - could you patent the sun ?

— Jonas Salk

“problem peaked in 1952 with an outbreak that killed more than three thousand victims, many of them children, and left twenty-one thousand at least…

— David Quammen

Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of…

— David Oshinsky

“If Patents are for Patients, Then Patients will be for Patents.”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but…

— Bill Gates

“How Long Before Monsanto Try to Patent The Milk of Human Kindness”

— Dean Cavanagh

I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of…

— Frank Macfarlane Burnet

“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face... Benefits…

— Benjamin Waterhouse