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Children Quote by Jonas Salk

“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.” quote by Jonas Salk — Download Open image

“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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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

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It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.

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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…

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Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

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Are we being good ancestors?

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My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a…

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As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like,…

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

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My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of…

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The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

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