"Why did Mozart compose music?"
— Jonas Salk

January 1, 1970

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Response when asked why he chose to do medical research rather than be a practicing physician, as quoted in The Polio Man : The Story of Dr. Jonas Salk (1961) by John Rowland, p. 23