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Jonas Edward Salk (/sɔːlk/; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. 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. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr..

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One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

Chance, Gives, Giving, Greatest, Rewards

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Be Good, Good, Greatest, Responsibility, Xenophobia

IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY.

Await, Eternity, Said, Science

Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

Wise, Judgment, Capacity, Wisdom, Recognize, Looked

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

Cancer, Cell, Cells, Pictured, Tried, Viruses

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.

Errors, Evolution, Happens, Speak, Things

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

Ambition, Courage, Dream, Dreams, Make

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

Dream, Dreams, Motivational, Tell, Tells, Thought Provoking

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

Disappeared, Earth, Humans, Insects, Perish

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because. ' There was no satisfactory answer.

Disease, Immunization, Lectures, Preparation, Tetanus, Toxoids

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Creativity, Thinking, Psychics, Mind, Tell, Intuition

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.

Art, Believe, Fun, Place, Revolution, Science

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

Ancestor, Ask, Be Good, Good, Important, Question

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

Addition, Immune System, Medicine, Mind, Powers, Turn

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

Spiritual, Choices, Evolution, Time, Active

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

Allow, Block, Importance, Journey, People, Tells

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

Done, Help, Job, Jobs, People, See

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

Entrepreneur, Epidemic, Epidemics, Health, Possible, Self

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

Asking, Come, Define, Over You, Reveal, Teaching

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 being as having a purpose, a destiny, if you like - the destiny that exists in each of us - and find ways and means to provide such opportunities for everyone.

Destiny, Look, Mean, Opportunity, See, Top

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