Globes Quote by Alexander Smith

The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to…

— Darold Treffert

I always hoped I'd end up playing a lot cooler roles. I do end up playing quite a lot of idiot savants, and I've…

— Kris Marshall

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

— Dan Rather

Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured…

— Ambrose Bierce

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it…

— Phil Lesh

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain…

— Darold Treffert

“Too often, no matter what simpering savants say, there is no real choice. Not if life is to have meaning.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

— Darold Treffert

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual…

— Christopher Hitchens

With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all…

— Darold Treffert

Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by…

— Charles Babbage

When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to…

— Darold Treffert