Jonas Salk's Quotes

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

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

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

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

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

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

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.

I didn't ignore school; in fact I would seldom miss a day. But I hated it. By the time I was 14 or so, I was leading my own life. I had my own little world.