“ In England, one was classified (working class, middle class, upper class, whatever) as soon as one opened one’s mouth; one did not mix, one was not at ease, with people of a different class—a system w… Oliver Sacks
“ In 1986, I read a remarkable article by Israel Rosenfield in The New York Review of Books in which he discussed the revolutionary work and views of Gerald M. Edelman. Edelman was nothing if not bold.… Oliver Sacks
“ I wondered whether systems in the brain concerned with the perception (or projection) of meaning, significance, and intentionality, systems underlying a sense of wonder and mysteriousness, systems for… Oliver Sacks
“ I wondered if what one normally calls normal was itself a sort of dullness, a deadening of sense and spirit, if not, indeed, a very closure of their doors. For myself, now, liberated, released, emerg… Oliver Sacks
“ I stayed, as always, at 37 Mapesbury, and on publication day my father came into my bedroom, pale and shaking, holding The Times in his hands. He said, fearfully, You’re in the papers. There was a ver… Oliver Sacks
“ I sometimes wonder why I have spent more than fifty years in New York, when it was the West, and especially the Southwest, which so enthralled me. I now have many ties in New York—to my patients, my s… Oliver Sacks
“ I have to remember, too, that sex is one of those areas—like religion and politics—where otherwise decent and rational people may have intense, irrational feelings. Oliver Sacks
“ I have no words for that feeling, nor had I ever had it before, which comes from the knowledge that one is far away from all humanity, alone in a thousand square miles. We rode in silence, for speech… Oliver Sacks
“ I had found myself thinking of time—time and perception, time and consciousness, time and memory, time and music, time and movement. I had returned, in particular, to the question of whether the appar… Oliver Sacks
“ I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work, and my friends. Oliver Sacks
“ For ‘wellness’, naturally, is no cause for 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… Oliver Sacks
“ But science is a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past but never outgrows it,… Oliver Sacks
“ A smudge on the wall is an object of limitless fascination, multiplying in size, complexity, color. But more than that, one sees every relationship it has to the rest of the universe; it possesses, th… Oliver Sacks
“ Parked the bike in a side road—and fainted. The second accident occurred at night in heavy Oliver Sacks
“ The sense of personal space, of the self in relation to other objects and other people, tends to be markedly altered in Tourette’s syndrome. Oliver Sacks
“ Ralph pointed out his car to me, its license plate bearing just four letters, A T G C—the four nucleotides of DNA—and Oliver Sacks
“ Patients were real, often passionate individuals with real problems—and sometimes choices—of an often agonizing sort. It was not just a question of diagnosis and treatment; much graver questions could… Oliver Sacks
“ One does not see with the eyes; one sees with the brain, which has dozens of different systems for analyzing the input from the eyes. Oliver Sacks
“ Nie dostrzegamy pewnych aspektównajważniejszych dla nas spraw z powodu ich prostoty i tego, że bardzodobrze je znamy. (Nie można pewnychrzeczy spostrzec, ponieważ wciąż masię je przed oczami.) Człowie… Oliver Sacks
“ Jednym z ulubionych słów neurologii jest „deficyt. Oznacza ono zaburzenie lub brak funkcji neurologicznej: utratę mowy, zdolności porozumiewania się, pamięci, wzroku, sprawności fizycznej, poczucia to… Oliver Sacks
