Oliver Sacks

British-American · 1933–2015

Neurologist and author whose compassionate case studies explored how the brain shapes identity, perception, and the human experience.

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“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

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“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.”

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