Oliver Sacks Quotes

the brain works better if the hand works too.

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

The development of the mind comes through movement

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

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

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.