#Oliver sacks

[entheognosis]

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

Oliver Sacks

[mythologyofblue]

"If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.” -Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

[in-love-with-movies]

Awakenings (1990)

[sleepysera]

"'I can really relate to Data,' she said as we drove away from the farm. She is a 'Star Trek' fan, as I am, and her favorite character is Data, an android who, for all his emotionlessness, has a great curiosity, a wistfulness, about being human. He observes human behavior minutely, and sometimes impersonates it, but longs, above all, to be human. A surprising number of people with autism identify with Data, or with his predecessor, Mr. Spock."

-Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[From my flickr files]

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There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

~Oliver Sacks

(Book: Gratitude)

[quotesfrommyreading]

Everything is public now, potentially: one’s thoughts, one’s photos, one’s movements, one’s purchases. There is no privacy and apparently little desire for it in a world devoted to non-stop use of social media. Every minute, every second, has to be spent with one’s device clutched in one’s hand. Those trapped in this virtual world are never alone, never able to concentrate and appreciate in their own way, silently. They have given up, to a great extent, the amenities and achievements of civilization: solitude and leisure, the sanction to be oneself, truly absorbed, whether in contemplating a work of art, a scientific theory, a sunset, or the face of one’s beloved.

  —  The Machine Stops (Oliver Sacks)

[starrylol]

Some Dr Wolf sketches for practice💚🙏

[iknowshitaboutfashion]

Oliver Sacks - British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, brilliant writer, body builder, and motorcycle enthusiast.

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me”. - Oliver Sacks

From Wikipedia:

Sacks was described by a colleague as "deeply eccentric". A friend from his days as a medical resident mentions Sacks's need to violate taboos, like drinking blood mixed with milk, and how he frequently took drugs like LSD and speed in the early 1960s. Sacks himself shared personal information about how he got his first orgasm spontaneously while floating in a swimming pool, and later when he was giving a man a massage. He also admits having "erotic fantasies of all sorts" in a natural history museum he visited often in his youth, many of them about animals, like hippos in the mud.

[mrmousetolliver]

Dr. Oliver Sacks / Neurologist / Naturalist / Historian / Writer

[explore-blog]

Oliver Sacks on how chocolate cast its spell upon humanity, from biochemistry to culture.

[maaarine]

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Ric Burns, 2019)

[entheognosis]

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Sacks

[addictivecontradiction]

Awakenings, 1990

[julesofnature]

"In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical 'therapy' to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens." -Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015) explores in a lovely short essay titled “Why We Need Gardens,” found in Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

[emtheanxiousdragon]

HEY

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT BEAUTIFUL MINDS WITH ZACHARY QUINTO IT HAS:

Gay enemies to lovers (hinted)

Psychology taken seriously

Zachary Quinto

Really cool visuals to demonstrate neurological conditions

Multiple disabled characters

Research based on the works of neurologist Oliver Sacks

Zachary Quinto

Sassy, patient focused stories

Zachary Quinto

It’s on Peacock! Watch it!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Masao Yamamoto

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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.’

Gerald Edelman (Nobel Prize 1972) quoted by Oliver Sacks in his book ‘Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain’.