Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of popular books on the workings of the mind, died on August 30, 2015 at the age of 82.
In books like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, the latter of which was made into a film with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, Sacks made highly unusual neurological cases relevant to a general audience by showing us what, neurologically speaking, makes human beings human. In recent months he had written eloquently in newspapers about facing death from the liver cancer that killed him. Here are eleven quotes from Sacks' life and work.
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