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Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel

French surgeon, anatomist and biologist

Lived from: 1873 - 1944

Category: Scientists Country: FlagFrance

Born: 28 june 1873 Died: 5 november 1944

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  • All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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  • A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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  • All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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  • Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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  • Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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  • Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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  • In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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  • Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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  • Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
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  • Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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  • Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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  • Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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  • 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.
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  • The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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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.
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  • To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
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What are the most famous quotes from Alexis Carrel?

The two most famous quotes from Alexis Carrel are:

  • "All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."
  • "A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."

When did Alexis Carrel live?

Alexis Carrel was born in 1873 and died in the year 1944.