“ She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening. Oliver Sacks
“ My pre-med studies in anatomy and physiology at Oxford had not prepared me in the least for real medicine. Oliver Sacks
“ Experience and experiment are crucially important here—neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The Oliver Sacks
“ 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… Oliver Sacks
“ Darwin himself was evidently puzzled, as he wrote in The Descent of Man: As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man…they must be ranked… Oliver Sacks
“ Clearly, passionately, he wanted something to do: he wanted to do, to be, to feel—and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose—in Freud’s words, ‘Work and Love’. Oliver Sacks
“ Children have an elemental hunger for knowledge and understanding, for mental food and stimulation. They do not need to be told or motivated to explore or play, for play, like all creative or proto-cr… Oliver Sacks
“ At some second transcendent moment in evolution, Edelman proposed, the development of higher-order consciousness was made possible in humans (and perhaps a few other species including apes and dolphin… Oliver Sacks
“ All of us, at first, had high hopes of helping Jammie - he was so personable, so likable, so quick and intelligent, it was difficult to believe that he might be beyond help. But none of us had ever en… Oliver Sacks
“ Who could have dreamed that in this blind, palsied woman, hidden away, inactivated, over-protected all her life, there lay the germ of an astonishing artistic sensibility (unsuspected by her, as by ot… Oliver Sacks
“ There is a world of difference between complexity and anarchy. The weather is complex, it is not anarchic. Oliver Sacks
“ In Edelman’s view, very little else is programmed or built in. A baby turtle, on hatching, is ready to go. A human baby is not ready to go; it must create all sorts of perceptual and other categorizat… Oliver Sacks
“ William James, in his lectures on exceptional mental states, referred to the trances of mediums who channel voices and images of the dead, and of scryers who see visions of the future in a crystal bal… Oliver Sacks
“ Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness, one of the first synoptic articles to come out of his collaboration with Christof Koch at Caltech. I felt very privileged to see this manuscript, in… Oliver Sacks
“ To what extent are we the authors, the creators of our own experiences? How much are these predetermined by the brains or senses we are born with, and to what extent do we shape our brains through exp… Oliver Sacks
