102 Quotes by Jonas Salk

"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."

"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."

"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."

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

"As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me."

"The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around."

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

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

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

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