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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.

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.

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.

The Worst Tragedy That Could Have Befallen Me Was My Success. I Knew Right Away That I Was Through - Cast Out.

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.