I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as…

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing…

— Ben Fountain

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive…

— George Combe

Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process,…

— Black Thought

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the…

— David Remnick

“Matthew knew that phrenology was nonsense, and yet, years later, he found himself making judgments similar to those made by his father; slippery people…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

— Horace Mann

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe…

— Ambrose Bierce

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a…

— Adam Sedgwick

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

— Frederick Crews

Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology,…

— James J. Kilpatrick

“See, phrenology is this old Victorian science, which claimed you could determine the dominant traits of a man's personality by studying the bumps on…

— Simon R. Green

A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“After all, in the nineteenth century, racists relied on phrenology, or the “science” of determining personality traits based on the shape of the head,…

— Francione, Gary L