Alexis Carrel

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

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

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

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

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.