Polio Quotes - Page 2

• The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Long, Prevention

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• I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

  Cher

  Kids, Angel, Heaven

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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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• Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

  Stanley Norman Cohen

  Cancer, Lovely Lady, Cynical

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• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Two, Feelings, Joints

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• If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Children, Religion

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• My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

  David Alan Grier

  Father, Korea, Train

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". Interview with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. May 22, 2012.

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• Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Polio Vaccine, Ideas

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Mother, Couple, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

  Naveen Jain

  Creativity, Fire, Polio Vaccine

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• I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

  Bill Gates

  Philosophy, Thinking, Disease

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Children, Vaccines, Remember

  "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Risks From Vaccines Are 'Almost Nonmeasurable'". "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2015.

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• We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

  Mary Calderone

  Baby, Epidemics, Polio Vaccine

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• I've crippled more people than polio.

  The Undertaker

  People, Undertaker, Crippled

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• Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

  Clarence Jordan

  Soul, Walk By Faith, Walking

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Years, Research

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• In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Government, Effort

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.

  Seth Berkley

  World, Type

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• Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/

  Howard Tayler

  Children, Engineering, Iron

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• The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.

  David Oshinsky

  Children, Taken, Europe

  "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2011.

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• We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Morning, Brother, Journey

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• I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, Thinking, Starting Up

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, Cousin, New York

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• Even to this day, the government, the FDA is refusing to use the sophisticated biotechnology to evaluate the contaminants in the vaccines such as the polio vaccines that they are administering. I think (people) would be appalled that some of the vaccines that are currently being used are still laced with viruses.

  Leonard Horowitz

  Thinking, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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