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I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

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

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.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:
It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

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.

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

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

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

Are we being good ancestors?

I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

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

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

IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

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

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

What makes your heart leap?

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

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

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

When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.