“When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course.”

—  Jonas Salk

The Open Mind interview (1985)
Context: When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better — ever so much slightly better — at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

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