Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salkwas an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. 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 scientist physician at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
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.
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
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.
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.
Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
The people - could you patent the sun ?
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.