Oliver Sacks
British-American · 1933–2015
Neurologist and author whose compassionate case studies explored how the brain shapes identity, perception, and the human experience.
Wikipedia ↗“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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“There is no one so ill that he or she cannot be reached. Everyone, even the most devastated, has a deep need to tell the story of their lives, to compose a narrative, and this act of composing is itself an act of reclaiming identity.”
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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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“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
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