![]() He was a neurologist who treated people whose brains malfunctioned in usual and sometimes distressing ways. The cosmos that fed the childlike wonder of Sacks was the human brain. ![]() ![]() Whatever their discipline, they are all players in the same epic drama - they speak of the human animal facing the wonder of the cosmos.Īll believe that this cosmos is knowable - that our silent awe is expanded by the even greater miracle of human understanding. One after another, they have addressed us on TV with their takes on civilisation and the triumph of reason. Later members are the historians Simon Schama and Bettany Hughes, and the physicist Brian Cox. His generation included the medico and theatre director Jonathan Miller, the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark, the mathematician Jacob Bronowski and the naturalist David Attenborough. ![]() Oliver Sacks was an honorary member of that exclusive club I like to think of as the Wise English Prophets. ![]()
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