Paul Broca

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The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
- Paul Broca
Collection: Inspire
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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.
- Paul Broca
Collection: Brain
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I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
- Paul Broca
Collection: Son
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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.
- Paul Broca
Collection: Progress
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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
Collection: Intellectual
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Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
- Paul Broca
Collection: Science