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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. The Best From The Best, And The Best From Those Who, Perhaps, Might Not Have The Same Endowment. And So This Bespeaks An Entirely Different Philosophy — A Different Way Of Life — A Different Kind Of Relationship — Where The Object Is Not To Put Down The Other, But To Raise Up The Other.

Reply When Questioned On The Safety Of The Polio Vaccine He Developed: It Is Safe, And You Can't Get Safer Than Safe.

I Do What I Feel Impelled To Do, As An Artist Would. Scientists Function In The Same Way. I See All These As Creative Activities, As All Part Of The Process Of Discovery. Perhaps That's One Of The Characteristics Of What I Call The Evolvers, Any Subset Of The Population Who Keep Things Moving In A Positive, Creative, Constructive Way, Revealing The Truth And Beauty That Exists In Life And In Nature.

Nothing Happens Quite By Chance. It's A Question Of Accretion Of Information And Experience.

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.