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Are we being good ancestors?
The people - could you patent the sun ?
Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
A good parent gives their child roots and wings.
It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.
Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.
Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.
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.
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.
I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.
The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.
I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
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.
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.
Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.