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

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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.

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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.

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[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

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

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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.

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Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or wh... by Jonas Salk

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

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Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you revea... by Jonas Salk

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

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The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we bei... by Jonas Salk

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

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There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soo... by Jonas Salk

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

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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

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I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

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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.

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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to d... by Jonas Salk

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

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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.

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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the dis... by Jonas Salk

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

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Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process. by Jonas Salk

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

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Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do... by Jonas Salk

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

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Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we des... by Jonas Salk

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep... by Jonas Salk

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

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It is said to await certainty is to await eternity. by Jonas Salk

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

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