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There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

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in response to the question regarding his Polio vaccine, "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" by Edward R. Murrow, in a 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

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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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