French - Scientist | June 28, 1873 - November 5, 1944
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.
Alexis Carrel
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
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The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.
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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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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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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 Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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