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...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
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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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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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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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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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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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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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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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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.
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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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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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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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