Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Professions : Surgeon Born : July 16, 1783 Died : July 5, 1867 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for. Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet organization animal men It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place. Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet newton development brain Similar Authors Atul Gawande surgeon August Bier surgeon Astley Cooper surgeon Alexis Carrel surgeon Ala Bashir surgeon Denton Cooley surgeon All Authors
