Alexis Carrel
Scientist
1873-06-28 – 1944-11-05
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
Books by Alexis Carrel
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Man, the unknown
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The Treatment of Infected Wounds
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Man the unknown
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Quotes by Alexis Carrel
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.
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Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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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.
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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.
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Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
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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.
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