Jonas Edward Salk was an American physician and medical researcher. Salk developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio. Inspirational Jonas Salk quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Famous Jonas Salk Quotes
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can’t get safer than safe. Jonas Salk
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don’t sleep well for two or three months. Jonas Salk
The mind, in addition to medicine, has the power to turn the immune system around. Jonas Salk
I couldn’t possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn’t organized it myself. Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? Jonas Salk
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. Jonas Salk
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was cast out. Jonas Salk
Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion of information and experience. Jonas Salk
The mind, in addition to medicine, has the power to turn the immune system around. Jonas Salk
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm, the realm of the imagination guides my thinking. Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
Eventually, we’ll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. Jonas Salk
Find the right questions. You don’t invent the answers, you reveal the answers. Jonas Salk
It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self organizing and self propelling. Jonas Salk
Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion of information and experience. Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
There is no such thing as failure, there’s just giving up too soon. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
Life is an error making and an error correcting process. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. Jonas Salk
Evolution favors the survival of the wisest. Jonas Salk
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, ‘Are we being good ancestors Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
Who owns the patent on this vaccine? Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? Jonas Salk
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. Jonas Salk
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk
Salk tested the vaccine on himself and his family. Jonas Salk
I am interested in a phase that I think we are entering. Jonas Salk
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. Jonas Salk
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.Jonas Salk
Are we good ancestors? Jonas Salk
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. Jonas Salk
I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. Jonas Salk
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. Jonas Salk
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. Jonas Salk
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, ‘Are we being good ancestors? Jonas Salk
There is no such thing as failure, there’s just giving up too soon. Jonas Salk
The mind, in addition to medicine, has the power to turn the immune system around. Jonas Salk
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
What makes your heart leap? Jonas Salk
Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion of information and experience. Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch. Jonas Salk
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it’s for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error making and an error correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better ever so much slightly better at error correcting than at error making, then we’ll make it. Jonas Salk
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
It is safe, and you can’t get safer than safe. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. Jonas Salk
There is no such thing as failure; there’s just giving up too soon. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. Jonas Salk
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. Jonas Salk
There is no patent. Could you patent the Sun? Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was cast out. Jonas Salk
Life is an error-making and an error correcting process. 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. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
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. Jonas Salk
