Jonas Salk Vaccine Quotes

#1. I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

Jane Goodall

#2. 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.

Jonas Salk

#3. One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!

Michael Flynn

#4. In 1955, amid the great fanfare that accompanied the initial release of the [polio] vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent. He replied, "Well, the people, I would say. Could you patent the sun?

John Abramson

#5. When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

Jonas Salk

#6. To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

Mark Galli

#7. Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:
It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

Jonas Salk

#8. Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

Hosea Ballou

#9. Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Jonas Salk

#10. The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. For most of us a job is bread and butter and for most of others its just bread and butter.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#12. I frowned. "Don't you guys have a steroid needle that needs an ass cheek?" Their

Harlan Coben

#13. Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Robin Williams

#14. The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Tim Berners-Lee

#15. I really hate people who feel their private lives should be paraded, and there are magazines like 'Hello!,' 'OK' and 'Bella' totally devoted to this.

Ross Kemp

#16. We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.

Leslie Groves

#17. My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

David Schwimmer

#18. Lou could imagine Rich hiding within. She closed her eyes, letting her mind wander, search, and finally focus on him. Hurry up, Rich, she thought. Feeling the tug of connection, a thrill of anticipation ran up her spine. Lou didn't let herself nudge events often, but she did it today.

Danika Stone

#19. Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

John B. S. Haldane