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.
Jonas SalkRead
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.
Interpretation
Jonas Salk emphasized the importance of a chemical perspective in medicine, particularly in the study of viruses.
In this quote, Jonas Salk reflects on his ambition to integrate chemistry into the field of medicine. He highlights how his innovative use of chemical techniques and thought processes in biomedical research allowed him to advance the understanding and treatment of diseases, particularly those caused by viruses, which was crucial in developing the polio vaccine.
In practice
In a lecture on the importance of innovative thinking in science, one could cite this quote to illustrate the role of chemistry in medical advancements.
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.
Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g 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.
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.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.
We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.
The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
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