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Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine? Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
More from Jonas Salk
- It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
- I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
- Why did Mozart compose music?
- Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here…
- Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
- Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
- I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- I couldn't possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn't founded it myself.