Paul Broca quotes
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“The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.”
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“There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.”
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“There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.”
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“I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.”
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“Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.”
-- Paul BrocaSource : Letter, 10 April (1851)
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“We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.”
-- Paul Broca
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Source : Interview with Mary Fairchild, www.thoughtco.com. March 24, 2017.
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“The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!”
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Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
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