The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life.… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“Happiness depends on one being exactly fitted to the nature of one's work.” — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
