I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as… — George Combe Copy Share Image
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“See, phrenology is this old Victorian science, which claimed you could determine the dominant traits of a man's personality by studying the… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“After all, in the nineteenth century, racists relied on phrenology, or the “science” of determining personality traits based on the shape of… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
“Matthew knew that phrenology was nonsense, and yet, years later, he found himself making judgments similar to those made by his father;… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The mid-eighteen-thirties marked the rise of eugenics and racialism, with phrenology emerging as just one of the many pseudosciences that sought to… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
![“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to…” quote by Adam Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/76d/adam-sedgwick-38188_breeding_vestiges-begins-from-principles-which-ar_743932.jpg)
