"Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from……" — Oliver Sacks
"Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique."
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site.
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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…
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More Biologically Quotes
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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
— Robert Carlyle
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
— Desmond Morris
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We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond…
— Noam Chomsky
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.
— Mark Messier
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a…
— Karl Popper
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As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
— Anita Bryant
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And…
— Joan Lunden
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has…
— Robert Burton
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Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human.…
— Martin Wolf
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