34 Quotes by Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel was a French biologist and physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for his work on vascular suturing and organ transplantation. He also contributed to the development of a technique for maintaining organs outside of the body, paving the way for the modern practice of organ transplantation. Carrel was a controversial figure, as he espoused eugenic and racist views and was sympathetic to the fascist movement in Europe. Despite this, his scientific contributions had a lasting impact on medical research and practice, and his work on tissue culture and transplantation continues to be relevant to modern medicine. (Bio)
Alexis Carrel Quotes
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
The quality of life is more important than life itself. (Meaning)
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Meaning)
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
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.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
― Alexis Carrel Quotes
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