Quotes about jonas salk biography wikipedia

Jonas Salk (October 281914 – June 231995) was a medical researcher and author, the inventor of the Salk vaccine against Polio, and the founder of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Quotes

• Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine?
  Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent.

  Could you patent the sun?

  • CBS Television interview, on See It Now (12 April 1955); quoted in Shots in the Dark : The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (2001) by Jon Cohen

• It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
  • On testing his vaccine against polio on himself, his wife, and his three sons (9 May 1955)

• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
  • On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement (23 April 1956); several variations of this personal motto are often quoted, including:
    • The reward for work well done i