Jonas Salk Quotes

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• If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

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  Life, Years, Humanity

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• There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

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  Giving Up, Do Not Give Up, Overcoming Failure

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

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  Important, Be Good, Ancestor

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• Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

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  Teaching, Over You, Asking

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

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  Humility, Vaccines, People

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• There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

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  Dream, Courage, Ambition

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• 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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  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

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  Risk, Pay

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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

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  Errors, Life Is, Process

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• Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

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  Xenophobia, Responsibility, Be Good

  "Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios". Book by Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall, p. 332, 1998.

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• I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

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  Knowledge, Thinking, Needs

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

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  Answers, Right Questions

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• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

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  Inspirational, Fitness, Teacher

  On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement, April 23, 1956.

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• Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

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  Survival, Favors, Evolution

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• Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

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  Motivational, Dream, Thought Provoking

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

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  Two, Numbers, Important

  "Man Evolving". "The Open Mind" with Richard D. Heffner, May 11, 1985.

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• The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

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  Medicine, Mind, Immune System

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• What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.

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  Philosophy, Two, Numbers

  Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.

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• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

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  Thinking, Discovery, People

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• It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

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  Science, Eternity, Said

  "Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine". Book by Jane S Smith, p. 295, 1990.

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• When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.

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  Thinking, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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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 purpose, a destiny, if you like - the destiny that exists in each of us - and find ways and means to provide such opportunities for everyone.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Destiny

  Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.

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

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  Ecosystems, Environmental, Realizing

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• If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

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  Earth, Insects, Humans

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• We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
  for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
  There was no satisfactory answer.

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  Preparation, Answers, Tetanus

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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