Jonas Salk
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"Jonas Edward Salk" was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine. Born in New York City to Ashkenazi Jews/Jewish parents, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician.

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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

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

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

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

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

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

It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.

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.