It gave me a deeper sense of science as a communal enterprise, of scientists as a fraternal, international community, sharing and thinking on each other’s work, and of Crick himself as a sort of hub,...
For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot doe...
Deutsch and her colleagues, in their 2006 paper, suggested that their work not only has implications for the issues of modularity in the processing of speech and music…[but] of the evolutionary origin...
Deaf, signing parents will babble to their infants in sign, just as hearing parents do orally; this is how the child learns language, in a dialogic fashion. The infant’s brain is especially attuned to...
Color is not a trivial subject but one that has compelled, for hundreds of years, a passionate curiosity in the greatest artists, philosophers, and natural scientists. The young Spinoza wrote his firs...
Ci ricordano che siamo sovrasviluppati in fatto di competenza meccanica, ma manchiamo di intelligenza, intuizione, consapevolezza biologiche; ed è questo, soprattutto, che dobbiamo riguadagnare, non s...
Biológica, fisiológicamente, no somos distintos unos de otros; históricamente, como narraciones... somos todos únicos.
Я уже отмечал, что после публикации «Близнецов» я получил огромное количество писем – как личных, так и научных. Некоторые из них касались вопросов об однояйцовых близнецах, другие – способов чувствен...
When the attack is due (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation.
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
For the most part, I rarely look at the journals I have kept for the greater part of a lifetime. The act of writing is itself enough; it serves to clarify my thoughts and feelings. The act of writing...
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...
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...
You have done useful, honorable work. Come home. All is forgiven
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.
Why is it that of every hundred gifted young musicians who study at Juilliard or every hundred brilliant young scientists who go to work in major labs under illustrious mentors, only a handful will wr...
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.
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
We soon discovered one strong interest that we shared; we were both fascinated by the sixth sense, proprioception: unconscious, invisible, but arguably more vital than any or all of the other five sen...
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,...