Paul Broca quotes

Paul Broca quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.”
-- Paul Broca

#Inspire Quotes #Assumption Quotes #Questionable Quotes
“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.”
-- Paul Broca

#Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes #Facts Quotes
“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.”
-- Paul Broca

#Progress Quotes #Interest Quotes #Respectable Quotes
“I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.”
-- Paul Broca

#Son Quotes #Apes Quotes #Degenerates Quotes
“Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.”
-- Paul Broca

Source : Letter, 10 April (1851)

#Science Quotes #Practice Quotes #Twins Quotes
“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

#Brain Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Inferiority Quotes

You may also like:

Antonio Damasio
Professor
Camillo Golgi
Physician
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Charles Scott Sherrington
Neurophysiologist
David H. Hubel
Neurophysiologist
Francis Galton
Polymath
Franz Joseph Gall
Physiologist
Gustave Le Bon
Social Psychologist
Herbert Spencer
Philosopher
Jean-Martin Charcot
Medical Doctor
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Poet
John Hughlings Jackson
Neurologist
Michael Gazzaniga
Professor
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Researcher
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Pathologist
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
Wilder Penfield
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychologist
William Herbert Sheldon
Psychologist
William James
Philosopher