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From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks

SO

"So it would happen, with variations, every time -- with improvisations, always prompt, often funny, sometimes brilliant, and ultimately tragic."

From Chapter 12, A Matter of Identity

Clerihew for a Cruising Neurologist

OLIVER SACKS

To relax
Oliver Sacks
Rode a sporty motorbike
In search of fellows he might like.

A Caricature

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From Brainstorm: Detective Stories from the World of Neurology, by Suzanne O'Sullivan

IF

"If a patient were to tap their tongue rhythmically in their mouth it might register in the brainwaves to look something like a seizure. The EEG electrodes cannot tell if the electrical activity they record comes directly from the brain or somewhere else. It is up to the doctor to differentiate a tapping tongue from a seizure."

From Chapter 6, August

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From The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker

ONLY

"Natural selection is not just a scientifically respectable alternative to divine creation.  It is the only alternative that can explain a complex organ like the eye.  The reason that the choice is so stark -- God or natural selection -- is that structures that can do what the eye does are extremely low-probability arrangements of matter."

From Chapter Eleven, The Big Bang