“They were all, in a sense, amateurs – self-educated, self-motivated, not part of an institution – and they lived, it sometimes seemed to me, in a halcyon world, a sort of Eden, not yet turbulent and troubled by the almost murderous rivalries which were soon to mark an increasingly professionalized world.”

“They were all, in a sense, amateurs – self-educated, self-motivated, not part of an institution – and they lived, it sometimes seemed to me, in a halcyon world, a sort of Eden, not yet turbulent and troubled by the almost murderous rivalries which were soon to mark an increasingly professionalized world.”

— Oliver Sacks