“ I often dream... of my parents and of my former patients - all long gone but loved and important in my life. Oliver Sacks
“ I have discussed neurological aspects of time and motion perception, as well as cinematic vision, at greater length in two articles, Speed and In the River of Consciousness. Oliver Sacks
“ I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays. Fifty pounds came with the Theodore Williams Oliver Sacks
“ He has one of the most spacious, thoughtful minds I have ever encountered, with a vast base of knowledge of every sort, but it is a base under continual questioning and scrutiny. (I have seen him sudd… Oliver Sacks
“ He has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call ‘The Great Health’—rare humour, valour, and resilience of spirit: despite being, or because he is, afflicted with Tourette’s. Oliver Sacks
“ Categorization is the central task of the brain, and reentrant signaling allows the brain to categorize its own categorizations, then recategorize these, and so on. Such a process is the beginning of… Oliver Sacks
“ But the feeling of a limb as a sensory and motor part of oneself seems to be innate, built-in, hardwired—and this supposition is supported by the fact that people born without limbs may nonetheless ha… Oliver Sacks
“ But her words haunted me for much of my life and played a major part in inhibiting and injecting with guilt what should have been a free and joyous expression of sexuality. Oliver Sacks
“ Both David and Marcus, I came to realize, though they seemed happy enough, and looked forward to being doctors, had a certain sadness, a sense of loss and renunciation, about other interests they had… Oliver Sacks
“ Biológica, fisiológicamente, no somos distintos unos de otros; históricamente, como narraciones... somos todos únicos. Oliver Sacks
“ And one day the mind leaps from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God. Oliver Sacks
“ And at this point, self-stimulation of various sorts began: mental games, counting, fantasies, and, sooner or later, visual hallucinations—usually a march of hallucinations from simple Oliver Sacks
“ Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician - but they would recognize the brain of a professional musician without moment's hesitation. Oliver Sacks
“ Adler studied a group of Hmong refugees from Laos who had immigrated to central California in the late 1970s and were not always able to perform their traditional religious rites during the upheaval o… Oliver Sacks
“ Too-muchness had no doubt been noticed at school, for it was around this time that I received a school report that said, ‘Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far. Oliver Sacks
“ تصاب الحيوانات بالمرض, و لكن الإنسان فقط يمرض جذرياًanimals get diseases, but only man falls radically into sickness. Oliver Sacks
“ إذا أردنا أن نعرف فلاناً فنحن نسأل : ما قصته - قصته الحقيقية الأعمق ؟ - لأن كل واحد منا هو سيرة وقصة . كل واحد منا هو حكاية فريدة يتم تركيبها باستمرار ودون وعي بواسطتنا ومن خلالنا وفينا من خلال إدرا… Oliver Sacks
“ When the attack is due (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation. Oliver Sacks
“ Unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the context, the economy of someone's li… Oliver Sacks
“ The complex integration of the three secret senses: the labyrinthine, the proprioceptive, and the visual. It is this synthesis that is impaired in Parkinsonism. The Oliver Sacks
