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The most important question w...

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

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When things get bad enough, t...

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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What people think of as the m...

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

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As a child I was not interest...

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.

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We were told in one lecture t...

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.' There was no satisfactory answer.

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When I worked on the polio va...

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.

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I see the triumph of good ove...

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

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I speak about universal evolu...

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.

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Solutions come through evolut...

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

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Our greatest responsibility i...

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

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Eventually we'll realize that...

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

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Reply when questioned on the ...

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

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It is possible to create an e...

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

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I overcame the nightmares beca...

I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

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One of the greatest rewards fo...

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

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If all insects disappeared, al...

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

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My job is to help people see w...

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

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If all the insects were to dis...

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

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It is possible to create an ep...

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

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I couldn't possibly have becom...

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

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