Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no …

Oliver Sacks
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Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
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At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.
There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2013). Migraine, p.309, Vintage
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 (2014). The Man … ▶
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2011). Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, p.121, Pan … ▶

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