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Alexis Carrel Quotes

Type:
Scientist Quotes
Category:
French Scientist Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 28, 1873
Date of Death:
November 5, 1944
Nationality:
French
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Alexis Carrel

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
Alexis Carrel

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Alexis Carrel

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
Alexis Carrel

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Alexis Carrel

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.
Alexis Carrel

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.
Alexis Carrel

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.
Alexis Carrel

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel

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.
Alexis Carrel

The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel

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.
Alexis Carrel

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Alexis Carrel


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