“Are we being good ancestors?”
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
“There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.”
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
“There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.”
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
“Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
“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 (1914-1995)
“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"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."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"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."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"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."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"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?"
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)