"When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking."

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Jonas Salk

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“Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.”
“The person that angers you most, teaches you best”
“I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to see if I do go. Besides, switchboard girls and secretaries have become very good. They've learned to take you apart. 'Who? Why? What for? What company?' You don't always get by. I seldom call on the phone. I'd rather go.”
“Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning”
“If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.”

Source : In 'Observer' 9 November 1969
“It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.”
“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.”
“It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.”

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