Broca's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

Oscar De La Renta

#3. I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

Mayim Bialik

#4. Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

Maximilien Robespierre

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

Paul Broca

#6. 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

#7. I am a student of love.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#8. 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

#9. I'm an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it's like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs?

Peter F. Hamilton

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

Paul Broca

#11. One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.

Pawan Mishra

#12. 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

#13. Impress yourself with the idea. Fill

Anthony Robbins

#14. All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

Samuel Johnson

#15. 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

#16. In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.

Johnny Rivers

#17. Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

Marge Schott