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“Who owns the patent on this vaccine?' 'Well, the people, I would say. There is not patent. Could you patent the sun?” quote by Jonas Salk — Download Open image

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

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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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