"I judge things from an evolutionary perspective — "How does this serve and contribute to the process of our own evolution?" — rather than think of good and evil in moral terms. I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution."
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Jonas Salk, in Academy of Achievement interview, in San Diego, California (16 May 1991).
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