Paul Broca famous quotes

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The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
-- Paul Broca

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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

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

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

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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

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Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the planeâ€™s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.â€ P. 38-39
My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.
Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

Paul Broca famous quotes

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