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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience … it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.

— Jonas Salk Breakthrough : The Saga of Jonas Salk (1966)

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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

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

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn't founded it myself.

I am interested in a phase that I think we are entering. I call it "teleological evolution," evolution with a purpose.

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios (1998)

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