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    A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

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    As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.

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    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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    A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

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    Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

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

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    Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

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

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    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.

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

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

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    If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

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    In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.

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    Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

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    I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

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    I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

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    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 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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    I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

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    I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

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    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.

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

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    It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

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    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.

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    Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

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

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    Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

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    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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    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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    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.

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    The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

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

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    The people - could you patent the sun ?

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    There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

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    There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

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    There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

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    The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

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    This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

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    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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    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.

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

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    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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    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.