Quotes About The Polio Vaccine

#1. 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

#2. But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus ... What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.

Edgar Berman

#3. I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.

Pat Cadigan

#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 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

#6. Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Sarah Vowell

#7. Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Melinda Gates

#8. I will unbolt to you

William Shakespeare

#9. I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.

Albert Sabin

#10. Here she was at nearly forty, trying to reinvent herself once again.

Marie Force

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

Jonas Salk

#12. His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness.

Donna Tartt

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

Jonas Salk

#14. When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. And part of that is coming up with a vaccine that will work like the vaccines we have for hepatitis B or flu or polio.

Laurie Glimcher

#15. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

Jenny McCarthy

#16. You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.

Jodi Picoult

#17. The drops (polio vaccine) were designed,said these believers. Their intention and effect was genocidal. Nobody was to swallow them, or administer them to infants. Within months, polio was back ...

Christopher Hitchens

#18. He goes not in search of obstacles, only the paths around them. Anything seems possible.

Eowyn Ivey

#19. We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

James Dyson

#20. Everyone has different challenges, different needs and strengths. Choices have consequences, but I now think that, even in the pits and traps, the Lord can make a way through.

Kristen Heitzmann

#21. Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted.

Chris Guillebeau

#22. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science.

Carl Sagan

#23. I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Kanye West

#24. We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

Mary Calderone

#25. Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Naveen Jain