102 Quotes by Jonas Salk

"The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'"

"Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it."

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

"Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do."

"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."

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

"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."

"There is no patent. Could you patent the Sun?"

"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."

"Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It’s this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It’s necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age."