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1873–1944 France
Alexis Carrel (28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.
France Academics Biologists Nobel laureates Physicians Also known as: Carrel, Alexis
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Man, The Unknown (1935)
Instead of leveling organic and mental inequalities, we should amplify them and construct greater men.
Man, The Unknown (1935)
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Man, The Unknown (1935)
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.
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal. The ideal solution would be the suppression of each of these individuals as soon as he has proven himself to be dangerous.
Man, The Unknown (1935)
The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, the future as well as the present.
Man, The Unknown (1935)
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