Quotes from Jonas Salk

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.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

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

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

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.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

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

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

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

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.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

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.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

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.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

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