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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling. (Jonas Salk)
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. View quote
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Now at the moment the world is suffering from large numbers of people who have no purpose in life - for whom there is no opportunity - and that's sad. View quote
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I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. View quote
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Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. View quote
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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. View quote
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I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. View quote
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I have come to associate a kind of success that we are referring to, to individuals who have a combination of attributes that are often associated with creativity. In a way they are mutants, they are different from others. And they follow their own drummer. View quote
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Reason alone will not serve. Intuition alone can be improved by reason, but reason alone without intuition can easily lead the wrong way. They both are necessary. View quote
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Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? View quote
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I am interested both in nature, and in the human side of nature, and how the two can be brought together, and effectively used. (Jonas Salk)
I am interested in a phase that I think we are entering. I call it "teleological evolution," evolution with a purpose. View quote
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The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. View quote
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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years. View quote
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Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else. View quote
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I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time. View quote
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My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research. View quote
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If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born. View quote
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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. View quote
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I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. View quote
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There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. (Jonas Salk)
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. View quote
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In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch. View quote
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I am interested in a phase that I think we are entering. I call it "teleological evolution," evolution with a purpose. The idea of evolution by design, designing the future, anticipating the future. I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge? View quote
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The idea of being constructive, creative, positive, in trying to bring out the best in one's own self and the best in others follows from what I've just been saying. Again, I repeat my belief in us, in ourselves, as the product of the process of evolution, and part of the process itself. I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. It's the need to dedicate one's self in that way, to one's own self, and to choose an activity or life that is of value not only to yourself but to others as well. View quote
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