102 Quotes by Jonas Salk

"Who owns the patent on this vaccine?''Well, the people, I would say. There is not patent. Could you patent the sun?"

"I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like."

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

"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."

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

"The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out."

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

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