Creative Quotations from . . .
Jonas Salk
(1914-1995) born on Oct 28
US microbiologist. "He developed the first polio vaccine using dead viruses, 1952-55."
 
   
F
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

R
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
A
"When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking."
N
"Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive."
K
"It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The New York Public Library Book of 20th Century American Quotations," by Stephen Donadio, 1992."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: "In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
N: "In "Quotations of Wit and Wisdom," ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975."
K: "On administering the experimental vaccine for polio to himself and his wife and three sons, news summaries 9 May 1955."



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