Quotes by Jonas Salk

About Jonas Salk:

Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician.
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Jonas Salk

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

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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

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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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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

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

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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 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 be...

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Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to ov...

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Are we being good ancestors?

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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 - ...

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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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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.

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

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Author Bio

  • NameJonas Salk
  • DescriptionInventor of polio vaccine
  • BornOctober 28, 1914
  • DiedJune 23, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysician; Biologist; Epidemiologist; Inventor
  • AwardsJawaharlal Nehru Award For International Understanding; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Robert Koch Prize; Humanist Of The Year; Robert Koch Gold Medal