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Jonas Salk: When I worked...

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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.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Jonas Salk, (Oct 28 1914-1995), US microbiologist; He developed the first polio vaccine using dead viruses, 1952-55.

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