Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
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“A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”
Alexis Carrel
“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality”
“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive”
“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.”
“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.”
“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia”
“The quality of life is more important than life itself”
“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.”
“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.”
“The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.”