Alexis Carrel Quotations

Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
- As quoted in Nava-Vēda : God and Man (Nara and Narayan) (1968‎) by M. B. Raja Rao, p. 229

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough merely to guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

An ordinary man can in a day's time travel by train from a dead little town of empty squares, where the sun, the dust, and the wind amuse themselves in silence, to a great capital city bristling with lights, gestures, and street cries. By reading a newspaper the inhabitant of a mountain village can tremble each day with anxiety, following insurrection in China, the London and New York suffragettes, Doctor Carrel, and the heroic dog-sleds of the polar explorers. The timid, sedentary inhabitant of any provincial town can indulge in the intoxication of danger by going to the movies and watching a great hunt in the Congo…
- Filippo Tommaso (F.T.) Marinetti, in Destruction of Syntax — Imagination without Strings — Words-in-Freedom (June 1913)