Jonas Salk

1914–1995 · Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine

Topics: learning, creativity, life

• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  — Jonas Salk

• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience

  — Jonas Salk

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

  — Jonas Salk

• Reason alone will not serve. Intuition alone can be improved by reason, but reason alone without intuition can easily lead the wrong way. They both are necessary.

  — Jonas Salk

• What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

  — Jonas Salk

• 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.

  — Jonas Salk