Alexis Carrel Quotes
"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
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Reality, Sense)
"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
(Related: Libraries, Reality)
"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
(Related: Society, Possibility, Destiny, Duty, First)
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Beauty, Love)
"Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Peace, Religion, Strength, Light, Man, Spiritual)
"The quality of life is more important than life itself."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life, Quality)
"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life)
"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Act, Man)
"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
(Related: Day, Night, Results)
"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: People, Advice, Help, Moments)
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Man, Suffering)
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Men, Intuition)
"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life, Forbidden, Hatred, Jealousy, Laws)
"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Enemies, Mankind)
"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: People, Effort, Help, Hurt)
"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life, Personality)
"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Man)
"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Perception, Intuition, Reality)
"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Truth, Error, Observation)