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
A good parent gives their child roots and wings.
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.
When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.
I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmaresbecause of my dreams.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams
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.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
An artist only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.
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 couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.