Paul Broca Professions : Physician Born : June 28, 1824 Died : July 9, 1880 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Paul Broca The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. Paul Broca physicians assuming inspire 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 groups mind brain I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. Paul Broca degenerates apes son 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 female intellectual brain 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 interest respectable Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science. Paul Broca twins practice science Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors