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Neurologist

Oliver Sacks was a renowned neurologist known for his profound insights into the human brain and nervous system. His work delved into the relationship between brain diseases and human behavior, revealing the fascinating world of neuroscience to readers.

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“My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.”

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Author:Oliver Sacks

“Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.”

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Book:Migraine

Source: Migraine

“Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph” and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.”

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“Music is part of being human.”

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Book:Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Source: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.”

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Book:The Mind's Eye

Source: The Mind's Eye

“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.”

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Book:Gratitude

Source: Gratitude

“A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.”

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Author:Oliver Sacks

“Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.”

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Author:Oliver Sacks

About the Author

Born: July 9, 1933
Died: August 30, 2015
Known for: Neurologist
Quotes: 157

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