“ 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 prize—£50! I had never had so much money at once. This time I wen… Oliver Sacks
“ Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have rema… Oliver Sacks
“ Du Bois Reymond spoke of a general feeling of disorder at the very start of his attacks, and other patients speak, simply, of feeling unsettled. In this unsettled state one may feel hot or cold, or bo… Oliver Sacks
“ Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, inner speech, and it is this that is indispensable for our further development, Oliver Sacks
“ 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… Oliver Sacks
“ 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… Oliver Sacks
“ 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… Oliver Sacks
“ By what warrant, therefore, is such an attack to be termed an extended epilepsy rather than a quite brief and severe, let us say, a condensed migraine? Oliver Sacks
“ As he wrote, if we could rerun evolution, it would no doubt turn out completely differently every time. Oliver Sacks
“ An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but will speedily perish if deprived of judgment. Judgment must be the first faculty of higher life or mind— Oliver Sacks
“ Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. Oliver Sacks
“ إن العيادة و المختبر و جناح المستشفى مصمّمة جميعاً لكبح و تركيز السلوك ، إن لم يكن لإقصائه كلياً .. Oliver Sacks
“ 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… Oliver Sacks
“ Оказавшись на месте, я обнаружил пациента рядом с кроватью. Он лежал на полу, пристально разглядывая свою ногу. В выражении его лица смешивались гнев, тревога, недоумение и веселое изумление – главным… Oliver Sacks
“ The delirious visions when they came to him may have owed something to opium as well as to a high temperature, since opium was then a normal remedy for ague or malaria. Oliver Sacks
“ Not so long ago, all humans heard voices—generated internally, from the right hemisphere of the brain, but perceived (by the left hemisphere) as if external, and taken as direct communications from th… Oliver Sacks
“ 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… Oliver Sacks
“ Cannot pretend I am without fear. But 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… Oliver Sacks
“ 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… Oliver Sacks
“ Where perception of objects is concerned, Edelman likes to say, the world is not labeled; it does not come already parsed into objects. We must make our perceptions through our own categorizations. Ev… Oliver Sacks
