I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. Paul Broca More Quotes by Paul Broca More Quotes From 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 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