The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function. — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real,… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
