Oliver Sacks Quotes About Natural History

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  • My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else.

    "Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, 1995.
  • Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape

    Oliver Sacks (1998). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
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Oliver Sacks

  • Born: July 9, 1933
  • Died: August 30, 2015
  • Occupation: Neurologist