Paul Broca Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

Ian Shoales

#3. 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

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

Paul Broca

#5. Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon ...

Brandon Sanderson

#7. 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

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

Paul Broca

#9. Yes," I answered. But I stayed awake for the rest of that long, dark night, wondering what such a dream could possibly mean.

Augusta Trobaugh

#10. When we do things with love, we gain the knowledge and wisdom and do it better.

Debasish Mridha