102 Quotes by Jonas Salk

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

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

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

Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion of information and experience.

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.

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.

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

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can’t get safer than safe.

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.