75 Quotes by Alexis Carrel

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

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.

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

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.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.