Jonas Salk Quotes

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

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

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.

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

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

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.

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.

I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.