Jonas Salk: Quotes about nature

Jonas Salk was Inventor of polio vaccine. Explore interesting quotes on nature.
Jonas Salk: 94   quotes 2   likes

“I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature.”

Jonas Salk

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: 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.

Wisdom , Nature , Thinking , Universe

“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

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: Why do I see things differently from the way other people see them? Why do I pursue the questions that I pursue, even if others regard them as, as they say, "controversial?" Which merely means that they have a difference of opinion. They see things differently. I am interested both in nature, and in the human side of nature, and how the two can be brought together, and effectively used.

Nature

“My attitude was always to keep open, to keep scanning. I think that's how things work in nature. Many people are close-minded, rigid, and that's not my inclination.”

Jonas Salk

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

People , Nature , Thinking

“I was told I could, if I wished, switch and get a Ph. D. in biochemistry but my preference was to stay with medicine. And I believe that this is all linked to my original ambition, or desire, which was to be of some help to humankind, so to speak, in a larger sense than just on a one-to-one basis. Just as I intended to study law, to make just laws, so I found myself interested now in the laws of nature, as distinct from the laws the people make.”

Jonas Salk

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

People , Law , Nature , Sense

“There is something about human nature that has to be understood, and so … I've shifted my attention from an interest in unity to an interest in creativity.”

Jonas Salk

The Open Mind interview (1985)

Nature

“As a bio-philosopher — as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself — through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.”

Jonas Salk

Responding to a question of whether he holds his views as a philosopher or as a biologist.
The Open Mind interview (1985)

Imagination , Nature , Sense , Future

“As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.”

Jonas Salk

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

Motivation , Nature , Science

“Why do I see things differently from the way other people see them? Why do I pursue the questions that I pursue, even if others regard them as, as they say, "controversial?" Which merely means that they have a difference of opinion. They see things differently. 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

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

People , Way , Question , Nature