102 Quotes by Jonas Salk

"Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don’t invent the answer-you reveal the answer."

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

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

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

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

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"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."

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"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."

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

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

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"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."

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