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Alexis Carrel [1873-1944] French

Rank: 102
Scientist, Surgeon

Alexis Carrel was 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 of his time, he promoted eugenics.

Life, Beauty, Jealousy, Knowledge, Morning, Peace, Power, Religion, Strength, Truth, Wisdom

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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.	Jealousy, Life	101
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.	Wisdom	102
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.	Life	103
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.	Truth	104
The quality of life is more important than life itself.		105
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.	Peace, Religion, Strength	106
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.	Power	107
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.		108
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.		109
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.	Beauty	110
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.		111
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.	Morning	112
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.		113
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.		114
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.	Knowledge	115
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.		116
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.		117
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.		118
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.		119
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.		120

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