Jonas Salk Short Quotes

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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

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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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I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

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

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I couldn't possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn't founded it myself.

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

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Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine?
Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

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There is something about human nature that has to be understood, and so … I've shifted my attention from an interest in unity to an interest in creativity.

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I already see enough evidence for this optimism … in recent years I find that perhaps what I'm seeking is a scientific basis for hope, and I think I've found it.

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My attitude was always to keep open, to keep scanning. I think that's how things work in nature. Many people are close-minded, rigid, and that's not my inclination.

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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.

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