PhotoMany people miss Oliver Sacks, the neurologist, best-selling author and philosopher of the mind who died of cancer last August at 82. He had liked it, Dr. Sacks said, but he added that the book was “slippery.” The event, part of the World Science Festival, which Dr. Sacks had participated in over the years, included remarks by Temple Grandin, the central character in Dr. Sacks’ book “An Anthropologist on Mars;” the physicist Brian Greene; and the composer Tobias Picker. Mr. Picker, who said he had Tourette’s syndrome since childhood but had received the diagnosis later in life, described meeting Dr. Sacks at a dinner party he hosted. “I had a very difficult childhood, and it stayed with me, well, it will stay with me forever,” he added.

Source: New York Times June 02, 2016 12:00 UTC