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Surgeon Inspirational Quotes (1266)

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Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. 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.
Alexis Carrel
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Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
Alexis Carrel
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Alexis Carrel
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Alexis Carrel
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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
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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.
Alexis Carrel
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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.
Alexis Carrel
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel
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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.
Alexis Carrel
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel
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Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Tobias Smollett
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
Alexander Fleming
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Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
Alexander Fleming
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(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
Alexander Fleming
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
Alexander Fleming
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It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.
Alexander Fleming
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
Alexander Fleming
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Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
Alexander Fleming
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If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
Alexander Fleming
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Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
George Crabbe
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