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
...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.
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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.
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. 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.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.