Jonas Salk Quotes - Page 3

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• I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Evil, Triumph

  In Academy of Achievement interview, in San Diego, California, May 16, 1991.

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• I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Salk

  Dream, Nightmare, Dreams And Nightmares

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• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

  Jonas Salk

  Morning, Sea, Psychics

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• What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

  Jonas Salk

  Would Be, Too Late, Genes

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

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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.

  Jonas Salk

  Tragedy, Worst, Casts

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• Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

  Jonas Salk

  Men, Errors, Survival

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• There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

  Jonas Salk

  Gestation Period, Long, Birth

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• The people - could you patent the sun ?

  Jonas Salk

  Science, People, Patents

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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 error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Evolution, Speak

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

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• You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.

  Jonas Salk

  Team, Eye, Differences

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

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• I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.

  Jonas Salk

  Moving, Artist, Discovery

  Academy of Achievement interview, May 16, 1991.

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• I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

  Jonas Salk

  People, Generations, Scene

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

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• In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.

  Jonas Salk

  Art, Fun, Believe

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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 job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

  Jonas Salk

  Jobs, Artist, Calling

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

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• Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

  Jonas Salk

  Pregnancy, Magic, Way

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• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.

  Jonas Salk

  Years, Numbers, Information

  "Breakthrough: The Saga of Jonas Salk". Book by Richard Carter, 1966.

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• I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

  Jonas Salk

  Organization, Members, Organized

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