Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist...
Culture is as crucial as Nature. Oliver Sacks
Culture is as crucial as Nature.
It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me Oliver Sacks
It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me
He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment. Oliver Sacks
He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment.
Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. Oliver Sacks
Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards.
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. Oliver Sacks
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
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.
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..
We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times. Oliver Sacks
We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times.
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.
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.
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.
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. Oliver Sacks
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.