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Polio Quote by Jonas Salk

“Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.” quote by Jonas Salk — Download Open image

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

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

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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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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 I see not a top rung and a bottom rung - I see all this horizontally - and I see this as part of a matrix. And I see every human being as having a…

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If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

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Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn't dance in pictures. I cried! At…

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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil…

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Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

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Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

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That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I don't care…

Henry Threadgill

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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against…

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If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called…

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So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what…

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