Quotes by Jonas Salk

“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams”

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”

“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors”

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

“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”

“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. Its my partner.”

“It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience”

“Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking mans papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.”

“I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.”

“Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.”

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”

“Nothing happens quite by chance. Its a question of accretion of information and experience.”

“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.”

“The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.”

“An artist only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone elses.”

“I have had dreams, and Ive had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”

“When intuition and logic agree, you are always right”

“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.”

“Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.”

“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.”