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.

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.

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

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

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