Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrelwas a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation. Like many intellectuals before World War II he promoted eugenics. He was a regent for the French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems during Vichy France which implemented the eugenics policies there; his association with the Foundation and with...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 June 1873
CountryFrance
Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.