Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
Jonas SalkThe 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.
Jonas SalkI have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.
Jonas SalkMy 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