Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salkwas an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a scientist physician at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.