“ عيادة الطبيب أو جناح المستشفى ليس دائماً المكان الأفضل لملاحظة المرض - أو على الأقل ليس المكان الأفضل لملاحظة اضطراب يظهر ، إذا كان منشأه عضوياً ، بصورة اندفاع ، و تقليد ، و تشخيص ، و ردّ فعل ، و تفاع… Oliver Sacks
“ Я решил провести еще один, последний эксперимент. Была ранняя весна, погода стояла холодная, и я пришел в пальто и перчатках, скинув их при входе на диван. Взяв одну из перчаток, я показал ее П.– Что… Oliver Sacks
“ What sort of a life (if any), what sort of a world, what sort of a self, can be preserved in a man who has lost the greater part of his memory and, with this, his past, and his moorings in time? It Oliver Sacks
“ They do not ‘convert’ numbers into music, but actually feel them, in themselves, as ‘forms’, as ‘tones’, like the multitudinous forms that compose nature itself. They are not calculators, and their nu… Oliver Sacks
“ Patients with aphasia and left-hemisphere lesions, says they have lost ‘abstract’ and ‘propositional’ thought—and compares them with dogs (or, rather, he compares dogs to patients with aphasia). Oliver Sacks
“ My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an in… Oliver Sacks
“ It is not (usually) the ideas of philosophers that change reality; nor, conversely, is it the practice of ordinary people. What changes history, what kindles revolutions, is the meeting of the two. A Oliver Sacks
“ In these few minutes one gets an overwhelming impression of the absolute identity of Body and Mind, and the fact that our highest functions—consciousness and self—are not entities, self-sufficient, ab… Oliver Sacks
“ A story I heard from a friend who, walking with Samuel Beckett in Paris on a perfect spring morning, said to him, Doesn’t a day like this make you glad to be alive? to which Beckett answered, I wouldn… Oliver Sacks
“ You keep pressing me, he said, to say that the attacks start with this symptom or that symptom, this phenomenon or that phenomenon, but this is not the way I experience them. It doesn’t start with one… Oliver Sacks
“ Wystan loved medical talk, and he had a soft spot for physicians. (In his book Epistle to a Godson, there are four poems dedicated to doctors, including one to me.) Oliver Sacks
“ Writing to him a few days later, I said that the experience was a little like sitting next to an intellectual nuclear reactor…. I never had a feeling of such incandescence. Oliver Sacks
“ While some of these near-death experiences are marked by a sense of helplessness and passivity, even dissociation, in others there is an intense sense of immediacy and reality, and a dramatic accelera… Oliver Sacks
“ While Crick (and his co-workers) cracked the genetic code—a set of instructions, in general terms, for building a body—Edelman realized early that the genetic code could not specify or control the fat… Oliver Sacks
“ When writing my Leg book, I drew heavily on the detailed journals I had kept as a patient in 1974. Oaxaca Journal, too, relied heavily on my handwritten notebooks. But for the most part, I rarely look… Oliver Sacks
“ When I was twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report, Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far, and this was often the case. Oliver Sacks
“ What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought. Oliver Sacks
“ What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened, by an intoxication or disease! Precisely Oliver Sacks
“ We rationalize, we dissimilate, we pretend: we pretend that modern medicine is a rational science, all facts, no nonsense, and just what it seems. But we have only to tap its glossy veneer for it to s… Oliver Sacks
“ Travel now by all means—if you have the time. But travel the right way, the way I travel. I am always reading and thinking of the history and geography of a place. I see its people in terms of these,… Oliver Sacks
