Polio Vaccine Quotes

“Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
― Jonas Salk

“Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:

It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.”
― Jonas Salk

“My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.”
― Albert Sabin

“Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is not patent. Could you patent the sun?”
― Jonas Salk

“In Taliban-controlled portions of Pakistan, “Polio vaccinations have been declared haram by the ulema, and the government campaign has subsequently stalled.” Like car insurance, vaccinations are a form of presumption. Only with the expulsion of the Taliban from the Swat Valley in the late summer of 2009 was the Pakistani government able to resume vaccinations.”
― Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis