Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist...
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. Oliver Sacks
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.
She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening. Oliver Sacks
She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening.
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over. Oliver Sacks
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. Oliver Sacks
We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. Oliver Sacks
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.. Oliver Sacks
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity..
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. Oliver Sacks
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
Music is part of being human. Oliver Sacks
Music is part of being human.
We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times. Oliver Sacks
We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times.
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality Oliver Sacks
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. Oliver Sacks
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. Oliver Sacks
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.