Quotes by : Oliver Sacks

The real functional "machinery" of the brain, for Edelman, consists of millions of neuronal groups, organized....

I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living....

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One....

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate....

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

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

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow....

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot....

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality