Jonas Salk Quotes

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

You have to think outside the box.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.