Quotes by Virologists

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Jonas Salk
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Dr. Jonas Salk
Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age.
Jonas Salk
If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.
Robin A. Weiss
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.
Jonas Salk
Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food crops there is more protein in the leafy parts than in the seeds or tubs that are usually harvested.
Norman Pirie
My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.
Albert Sabin
What makes your heart leap?
Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And so I see not a top rung and a bottom rung - I see all this horizontally - and I see this as part of a matrix. And I see every human being as having a purpose, a destiny, if you like - the destiny that exists in each of us - and find ways and means to provide such opportunities for everyone.
Jonas Salk
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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
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
The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Jonas Salk
Are we being good ancestors?
Jonas Salk