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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
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Human
Humans
Love
Noblest
Multiple
Forms
Gift
Beauty

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The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
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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.
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Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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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.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
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Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
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