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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.

  Jonas Salk

  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.

  Jonas Salk

  Mean, Opportunity, Destiny

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

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• A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Parenting, Wings

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• Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

  Jonas Salk

  Wise, Judgment, Capacity

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• A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

  Jonas Salk

  People, Deficit, Fewer

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• I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

  Jonas Salk

  Believe, Thinking, Intuition

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• I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

  Jonas Salk

  Cancer, Cells, Viruses

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

  Jonas Salk

  Daring

  On testing his vaccine against polio on himself, his wife, and his three sons, May 9, 1955.

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• Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

  Jonas Salk

  Block, Journey, People

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

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• I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.

  Jonas Salk

  Philosophy, Thinking, Progress

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

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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.

  Jonas Salk

  Preparation, Answers, Tetanus

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

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• One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

  Jonas Salk

  Giving, Rewards, Chance

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• I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

  Jonas Salk

  Spiritual, Choices, Evolution

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• Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

  Jonas Salk

  Creativity, Thinking, Psychics

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• My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

  Jonas Salk

  Jobs, People, Done

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• It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

  Jonas Salk

  Epidemics, Self, Entrepreneur

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• Are we being good ancestors?

  Jonas Salk

  Be Good, Thrive, Ancestor

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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 thinking in biomedical research.

  Jonas Salk

  Ambition, Science, Thinking

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• As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.

  Jonas Salk

  Alternatives, Scripture, Philosopher

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

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• When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Sleep, Vaccines

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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.

  Jonas Salk

  Science, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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• This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

  Jonas Salk

  Beautiful, Men, Technology

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• The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

  Jonas Salk

  Art, Important, Needs

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

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• If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.

  Jonas Salk

  Character, Responsibility, Angel

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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, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Sides, Not Interested

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

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