All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
About Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrelwas a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
French surgeon and biologist
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
French surgeon and biologist
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
French surgeon and biologist
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
French surgeon and biologist
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.
French surgeon and biologist
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
French surgeon and biologist
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
French surgeon and biologist
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
French surgeon and biologist
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
French surgeon and biologist
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
French surgeon and biologist
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
French surgeon and biologist
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
French surgeon and biologist
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
French surgeon and biologist
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
French surgeon and biologist
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
French surgeon and biologist
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
French surgeon and biologist
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
French surgeon and biologist
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
French surgeon and biologist
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
French surgeon and biologist
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
French surgeon and biologist