Quote of the Day

Reason alone will not serve. Intuition alone can be improved by reason, but reason alone without intuition can easily lead the wrong way…The way I like to put it is that when I have an intuition about something, I send it over to the reason department. Then after I’ve checked it out in the reason department, I send it back to the intuition department to make sure that it’s still all right. That’s how my mind works, and that’s how I work…There is both an art and a science to what we do.

—Jonas Salk, in an interview with The Academy of Achievement

Quote of the Day

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.

—Jonas Salk