Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk More Quotes by Jonas Salk More Quotes From Jonas Salk A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. Jonas Salk fewer deficit people 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. Jonas Salk psychics sea morning Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. Jonas Salk xenophobia be-good responsibility I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time. Jonas Salk progress philosophy thinking I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. Jonas Salk dreams-and-nightmares nightmare dream You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about. Jonas Salk differences team eye 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. Jonas Salk important art needs Are we being good ancestors? Jonas Salk ancestor thrive be-good What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other. Jonas Salk numbers philosophy two There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. Jonas Salk gestation-period birth long Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. Jonas Salk errors survival men The people - could you patent the sun ? Jonas Salk patents science people 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. Jonas Salk errors evolution speak 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. Jonas Salk evolution choices spiritual 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. Jonas Salk fun believe art What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late. Jonas Salk genes would-be too-late 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. Jonas Salk artist calling jobs I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. Jonas Salk errors evolution thinking It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. Jonas Salk daring I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution. Jonas Salk triumph errors evil
