Alexis Carrel

“All of us, scientists and non-scientists, must soberly face the fact that we are the most dangerous species on earth.”

“To progress, modern society must adopt a true discipline of the body and the mind.”

“Modern society has been built without knowledge of our real nature.”

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”

“The quality of life is more important than life itself.”

“A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”

“Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate.”

“Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.”

“Everyone should be taught from childhood how to be a creator of his own happiness.”

“The most striking characteristic of the present civilization is the degradation of the spiritual.”

“It is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer.”