Broca S Quotes

#1. Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

Robert Harris

#2. My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

#3. 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

#4. It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments.

Carl Sagan

#5. Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

Adam Sandler

#7. You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work.

Michael Dunlop

#8. I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#9. In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

Julia Glass

#10. 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

#11. Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger.

This is the story of how we got there.

Fredrik Backman

#12. The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

Paul Broca

#13. Your thoughts are as free as any bird

Michael Jackson

#14. The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech, aphasia, consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain.

Oliver Sacks

#15. President Clinton commenced the blathering with orotund

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. 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

#17. Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.

Paul Broca