Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
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- All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
- As quoted in Nava-Vēda : God and Man (Nara and Narayan) (1968) by M. B. Raja Rao, p. 229
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- To accomplish our destiny it is not enough merely to guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
- Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
Quotes about Carrel
- An ordinary man can in a day's time travel by train from a dead little town of empty squares, where the sun, the dust, and the wind amuse themselves in silence, to a great capital city bristling with lights, gestures, and street cries. By reading a newspaper the inhabitant of a mountain village can tremble each day with anxiety, following insurrection in China, the London and New York suffragettes, Doctor Carrel, and the heroic dog-sleds of the polar explorers. The timid, sedentary inhabitant of any provincial town can indulge in the intoxication of danger by going to the movies and watching a great hunt in the Congo…
- Filippo Tommaso (F.T.) Marinetti, in Destruction of Syntax — Imagination without Strings — Words-in-Freedom (June 1913)