Jonas Salk

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

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

“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”

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

“What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.”

“Risks, I like to say, are the spice of life.”

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

“If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.”

“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.”

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