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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
Observation
Errors
Lead
Truth
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Observations
Many
Reasoning
Much
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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 the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
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It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.
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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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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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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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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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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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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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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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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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