Quotes by : Oliver Sacks

In this, then, lies their power of understanding--understanding, without words, what is authentic or....

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to....

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function.....

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape;....

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were....

Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past.

Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show....

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality