Oliver Sacks
Birthday: 9 July 1933, London, England, UK
Birth Name: Oliver Wolf Sacks
Oliver Sacks was born on July 9, 1933 in London, England as Oliver Wolf Sacks. He was a writer and actor, known for Awakenings (1990), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987) and Oliver Sacks: T ...Show More
[on discovering that the study of modern chemistry was more theoretical than tactile] This seemed an Show more
[on discovering that the study of modern chemistry was more theoretical than tactile] This seemed an awful prospect, for I - at least - needed to smell and touch and feel, to place myself, my senses in the middle of the perceptual world. I had dreamed of becoming a chemist, but the chemistry that really stirred me was the lovingly detailed, naturalistic, descriptive chemistry of the nineteenth century, not the new chemistry of the quantum age. Hide
[interview in Newsweek magazine, 8/20/84] There is only one cardinal rule: One must always LISTEN to Show more
[interview in Newsweek magazine, 8/20/84] There is only one cardinal rule: One must always LISTEN to the patient. Hide
[on his patient Spalding Gray] On several occasions he talked about what he called "a creative suici Show more
[on his patient Spalding Gray] On several occasions he talked about what he called "a creative suicide". On one occasion, when he was being interviewed, he thought that the interview might be culminated with a "dramatic and creative suicide". I was at pains to say that he would be much more creative alive than dead. Hide
[interview in Newsweek magazine, 8/20/84] If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second c Show more
[interview in Newsweek magazine, 8/20/84] If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to. Hide
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