Jonas Salk Quotes

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I'm not intense at all. I'm always relaxed.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

I am an atheist still, thank God.

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

I love irony.

Ironic things are interesting.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

No, no,” Leo said. “Rainbows. Very macho.