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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Errors
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Truth
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Reasoning
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To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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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.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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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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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.
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As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
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If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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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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