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
Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.
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.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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.
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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.
Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...
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.