Jonas Salk

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

We are the architects of our own fate.

The time has come for a biology of humanity, a science of human beings.

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.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

The people, I think, are looking for meaning. They are hungry for meaning in their lives.

We are entering a new Epoch of human history, which might be called the 'Epoch of Biology'.

The greatest threat to the future is the belief that someone else will save it.

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.

I see myself as a philosopher who uses the tools of science.

Could we, like the prophets of old, invent a new future?

The only way to change the future is to change the present.

We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We need to move from the Epoch of Physics to the Epoch of Biology, from control over nature to cooperation with nature.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

The most creative force in the world is the individual who dares to dream and to take risks.

The future will be shaped by the choices we make today.

I dreamed of a world without polio. And then I rolled up my sleeves and went to work.

We are moving from an era of independence to an era of interdependence.