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 secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
...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.
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.
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.
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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.