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French physician and anatomist (b. 1824), Birth: 28-6-1824, Death: 9-7-1880
1.
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
Paul Broca

2.
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

3.
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
Paul Broca

4.
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

5.
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

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Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
Paul Broca