Quotes by Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten

Explore a curated collection of 7 quotes by Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table t — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
A union of literary and scientific cultures – there was not the dissociation of sensibility that was so soon to come ... — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
...read 1984 when it came out in 1949, and found its account of the ‘memory hole’ peculiarly evocative and frightening, — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me ‘diffident’) and Braefield had added a special timidity, bu — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my ow — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special ‘cry’. ‘It’s due to deformation of the crystal s — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was in numbers and thei — Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten