I’ve been wanting to read Oliver Sack’s books! Feels great to begin reading his writing in essay form.

While some see art as a bulwark of our collective memory, I see science, with its depth of thought, its palpable achievements and potentials, as equally important; and science, good science, is flourishing as never before, though it moves cautiously and slowly, its insights checked by continual self-testing and experimentation. I revere good writing and art and music, but it seems to me that only science, aided by human decency, common sense, farsightedness, and concern for the unfortunate and the poor, offers the world any hope in its present morass.

Interesting perspective I’d like to read more about. I think the answer is that some fusion of both art and science will be preventative medicine for “Humean casualties.”